[3] He was working as a paint salesman at the Grand Rapids Wood Finishing Company when he met Dorothy Ayer Gardner King.

[4] The president would later write that in Ford’s household, there were three rules for him and his half brothers: "tell the truth, work hard and come to dinner on time.

[3] Leslie's father Charles King had been paying child support for Ford until 1929 when the stock market crash wiped out his fortune.

The president changed his name in 1935 after the deaths of his paternal King family grandparents to an Anglicized version of his stepfather's name: Gerald Rudolph Ford.

He was director of the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Kent County, Michigan Republican Committee from 1944 until 1948 when he stepped down after the future President began his first run for Congress.