On July 14, 1913, Gerald R. Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
in Omaha, Nebraska. His biological father left the family when
Ford was three years old. His mother’s second husband, Gerald
Ford, adopted the young boy and gave him his name.

The young Ford went on to become the first vice president to
assume office after a president resigned, after President
Richard M. Nixon (below) stepped down in 1974.

Richard Milhous Nixon
(January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)

In Los Angeles, California, Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts was nominated for the presidency by the
Democratic Party Convention, defeating Senator Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, Johnson was named
Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of the
convention.

Senators Kennedy and Johnson during the 1960 campaign.

A Medal of Honor awarded to a Civil War general was
found inside a book at a church fundraising sale.

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into
law a measure calling for the awarding of a U.S. Army Medal
of Honor, in the name of Congress, “to such noncommissioned
officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by
their gallantry in action, and other soldier-like qualities during
the present insurrection.”

Abraham Lincoln
(February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874)

On July 10, 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore is sworn in
as the 13th president of the United States. President Zachary
Taylor had died the day before, five days after falling ill with
a severe intestinal ailment on the Fourth of July.

The Statue of Millard Fillmore located outside
Buffalo City Hall.

George W. Bush is shown climbing the steps to his Texas National Guard fighter plane. He was inducted into the
Texas Aviation Hall of Fame in 2017.

On July 6, 1946, George Walker Bush—the son of 41st U.S.
President George Herbert Walker Bush—was born in New
Haven, Connecticut. He went on to become the 43rd U.S.
president.