Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. With the collapse of South Vietnam nine months into his presidency, US involvement in the Vietnam War essentially ended. presidential succession.Īs president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, which marked a move toward détente in the Cold War. To date, this was the last intra-term U.S. After the subsequent resignation of President Nixon in August 1974, Ford immediately assumed the presidency. In December 1973, two months after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, Ford became the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. He served in this capacity for nearly 25 years, the final nine of them as the House minority leader. representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district.
Ford began his political career in 1949 as the U.S. Naval Reserve, serving from 1942 to 1946 he left as a lieutenant commander. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the U.S. Following his senior year, he turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, instead opting to go to Yale Law School.
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When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Ford succeeded to the presidency, but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976.īorn in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ford attended the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the school's football team, winning two National Championships. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as the 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974. July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. ( / ˈ dʒ ɛr əl d/ JERR-əld born Leslie Lynch King Jr. He was discharged from his sentence in March 2013.Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Scott was sentenced to a year in prison in 2012 for malicious destruction of police or fire property and domestic violence. He also has a drunk driving arrest from the same night he attacked the Apartment Lounge, according to the court documents. He has two misdemeanor convictions for trespassing. I was there in 2005 and treated nicely.''Īccording to WZZM13, police wrote in an affidavit that Scott has a history of disrupting venues in downtown Grand Rapids. "Is gay-bashing your habit?'' Kent County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Leiber asked, according to WZZM13.
Scott "angrily slammed" the bat into the bar and threatened to "bash the next 'gay-stick'" that came into the bar, according to court documents. He came back with the bat and Scott said in court "some people were pretty nervous about the whole thing." After leaving the bar the first time, he said he left to buy a baseball bat.
Scott admitted that he went to the Apartment Lounge, a gay bar, on April 29 twice. A Michigan man was slapped with a jail sentence Thursday for using a baseball bat to threaten patrons at a gay bar in April, Grand Rapids, Mich., ABC-affiliate station WZZM13 reports.Ĭhristopher Allen Scott, 58, who has a history of disruptive behavior at downtown venues in Grand Rapids, was sentenced to nine months in Kent County jail after being convicted on a felonious assault charge.