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Article: He was born Leslie, and other Ford facts.
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- January 3, 2007
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Byline: Jason Collington
Jan. 3--His favorite dessert was butter pecan ice cream.
He was an Eagle Scout.
He was 12 or 13 when he learned that Gerald R. Ford Sr. was not his birth father.
He was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb., the son of Dorothy Ayer Gardner King and Leslie Lynch King Sr., someone he met only twice in his life.
His parents separated two weeks after his birth.
His mother married Gerald R. Ford two years after her divorce was final. The couple began calling her son Gerald Jr., although he did not legally adopt that name until he was 22.