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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.
Gerald Ford nació el 14 de julio de 1913 en Omaha, Nebraska con el nombre de Leslie Lynch King, Jr. Fue hijo de Dorothy Ayer Gardner y Leslie Lynch King, Sr., un comerciante de lana. En su hogar de Oklahoma vivían también los abuelos paternos de Ford: el banquero Charles Henry King y Martha Alicia Porter.
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.
Early life and marriage [ edit] Dorothy Ayer Gardner as a child. Dorothy Ayer Gardner was born in the small town of Harvard, Illinois to Levi Addison Gardner, a businessman and one-time mayor, and Adele Augusta (Ayer) Gardner. There she married her first husband, wool trader Leslie Lynch King Sr. of Omaha, Nebraska, on September 7, 1912.
Biography. Leslie King was born on July 25, 1880/1884 in Chadron, Dawes, Nebraska, United States. [1] [2] [3] His birth is listed as 1884 in many records, yet his headstone indicates a birth in 1880 [4] His parents were Charles King and Martha Porter. He married 1st Dorothy Gardner on September 07, 1912 [5] Together they had 1 child:
The only President in the history of the United States not elected by American voters was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 14, 1913. His mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, soon divorced the boy's father—a wife-beating alcoholic—and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
