Timeline of President Ford's Life and Career

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Thomas Ford holds infant Richard Ford on his lap. The boys are seated on a wicker chair in front of their boyhood home at 649 Union Street, SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Boy Scouts of America Merit Badge sash owned and worn by Gerald R. Ford, Jr., as a scout. It contains 26 merit badges and two rank advancements. Dates to the 1920s.

Photograph of Gerald R. Ford, Jr., with other Eagle Scouts and Michigan Governor Fred Green, during a photo opportunity on Mackinac Island, Michigan, in August 1929.

Gerald R. Ford, Jr., with his mother Dorothy Gardner Ford and half-brothers Tom, Dick, and Jim Ford in front of their home in September 1927.

Photograph of Grand Rapids' South High School 1930 football team. Gerald R. Ford, Jr., is in the second row, fifth in from left.

Ford poses with his University of Michigan Football Teammate Herman Everhardus, holding a trophy he was awarded for for being the best freshman in the University of Michigan's 1932 spring football practice.

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Photograph of Gerald R. Ford, Jr. and his fellow football Coaches getting Ready for practice at Yale University (Ford pictured far right)

Photograph of Gerald R. Ford, Jr., with Fellow Rangers at Canyon Station, Yellowstone National Park, in 1936. From left to right: Frank Anderson, Robert Jennison, Ford, Wayne Replogle, William Hart, John Moore, John Thune, Alvin Raume, and Trusten Peery

Ford (left, holding a glass) poses with a naval officer at a farewell party for Air Group Thirty at the Ford Island Tennis Club, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Photograph of a Billboard for Congressional Candidate Gerald R. Ford, Jr.'s Republican Primary Campaign

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford in front of the Ambo in Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI, following their marriage.

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President Gerlad Ford, waving from the podium

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President Ford at a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unkown solider in Poland

President Ford before the CSCE.

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President Ford and Mrs. Ford eating Ice Cream in Portsmouth New Hampshire

President Ford and Betty Ford at the 47th annual tulip festival in Holland Michigan

President Ford meets with National Security Council to discuss evacuations of Americans currently in Bieruit

President Ford shakes the hand of Ronald Regan. Also shown in the photo is Vice President Rockefeller and 1976 Vice President Canidate Bod Dole

A Time to Heal (book cover)

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