Article: An era to end at Ford.

Byline: Jamie Butters

Mar. 10--William Clay Ford, the last surviving grandson of Henry Ford, plans to retire from the Ford Motor Co. Board of Directors after nearly 57 years, the company announced Wednesday.

Ford, who turns 80 Monday, is the father of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Ford and has been on the board for more than half of the company's history, elected before he even graduated from Yale University.

Overshadowed by his brother, Henry Ford II, who ran the company from 1945 to 1980, William Clay Ford is perhaps best known as the owner and chairman of the Detroit Lions, positions he apparently plans to keep.

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