Gerald R. Ford

• Childhood
  • 1913-1914
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  • 1924-1927
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Gerald R. Ford's Childhood, 1913-1914

(with some earlier photographs of his mother)

President Gerald R. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. Their son was known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr., until his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, after which he went by the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.

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H0022-2. Dorothy Ayer Gardner. 1910. Size of larger image is 75K

H0004-1. Dorothy Ayer Gardner. 1912. Size of larger image is 87K

H0003-1. Dorothy Ayer Gardner King poses in her wedding dress. September 7, 1912. Size of larger image is 75K

H0028-2. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) is held by an unidentified woman while his cousins Gardner and Adele James and an unidentified girl flank them. 1913. Size of larger image is 61K

H0040-4. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) in baptismal gown. 1913. Size of larger image is 49K

H0003-3 and H0004-2 (H0003-3 provides better reproduction). Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King on his baptism day. September 1913. Size of larger image is 70K

H0040-1. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.). 1914. Size of larger image is 63K

H0025-2. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) plays on the front walk of his home in Grand Rapids. 1914. Size of larger image is 74K

0005-2. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.). 1914. Size of larger image is 66K

H0003-2. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. (then known as Leslie Lynch King, Jr.). June 1914. Size of larger image is 79K