Ford, Gerald Rudolph – (Born July 14, 1913; Died December 26, 2006, Michigan) Thirty-Eighth President of the United States of America, (August 9, 1974 – January 20 1977) the only President never to have been elected to a national office, he succeeded to the Presidency upon the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, after having succeeded to the Vice Presidency upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew (appointed under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution by Nixon and confirmed by the Senate, legally changed his name (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.). (Republican)