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Leslie Lynch King Sr. (July 25, 1884 – February 18, 1941) was the biological father of U.S. President Gerald Ford. Because of his alcoholism and abusive behavior, his wife, Dorothy Gardner, left him sixteen days after Ford's birth.
Ford in 1916. Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. He was the only child of Dorothy Ayer Gardner and Leslie Lynch King Sr., a wool trader.
Leslie Lynch King Sr. was the father of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford. He was born in Nebraska, died in Arizona, and is buried in California.
Leslie L. King, Sr. died on February 18, 1941 at Tucson, Arizona and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California. Margaret Atwood King remarried in 1949 to Roy Mather. Charles Henry King, President Ford's grandfather, was a son of Lynch King and Rebecca Shepherd.
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. Please click on photographs below to see ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in 1913, but his name was changed after his stepfather adopted him. He became the 38th president of the United States in 1974, after Richard Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., the nation’s only unelected president and vice president, was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 14, 1913, the year his parents, Leslie and Dorothy King, divorced.
