Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born July 14, 1913) was the 40th (1973–1974) Vice President and the 38th (1974–1977) President of the United States. He was the nation's first President who was elected to neither the Presidency nor Vice Presidency. Instead, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973, he was appointed as Vice President by Richard Nixon following confirmation by Congress, and when Nixon later resigned, on August 9, 1974, Ford assumed the Presidency. Along with his own Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, he is one of only two people to have been appointed Vice President rather than elected.