Ever heard of Lesley Lynch King, Jr.?
Bit of trivia I never knew before.
Gerald R. Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. on Monday, July 14, 1913, at 12:43 in Omaha, Nebraska. His birthplace at 3202 Woolworth Avenue was the home of his banker grandfather, Charles Henry King. His parents were Leslie Lynch King, Sr., a wool trader, and his wife, the former Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who separated 16 days after his birth and divorced the following December. According to Associated Press reports, Leslie King, Sr. was abusive and had a drinking problem, and Ford later described his father as having frequently hit his mother.[1] James M. Cannon, the executive director of the domestic council during the Ford administration, has written that the future president's father threatened Dorothy Gardner King with a butcher knife a few days after their son's birth and announced his intention to kill her, their son, and the baby's nursemaid.[2]
On 1 February 1916, after returning to live with her parents in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dorothy King married Gerald Rudolff Ford, a paint salesman.[3] She began calling her son Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. The future president was never formally adopted, however, and he did not legally change his name until December 3, 1935; he also used a more conventional spelling of his middle name.[4] He was raised in Grand Rapids with his three half-brothers by his mother's second marriage. (He also had three half-siblings by his father's second marriage.) Ford was not aware of his actual parentage until shortly before turning fifteen. He met his biological father, whom he described as a "carefree, well-to-do man", while working in a restaurant as a teenager, but it appears that no further meetings ensued.[1] "My stepfather was a magnificent person," Ford
PS - since I voted for Nixon - I guess I sort of helped erect Ford. (Yep, me bloomz voted for Richard Nixon)
