Richard Nixon was elected with Spiro Agnew as his running mate in 1968 and again in 1972. On October 10, 1973 he resigned as Vice-President in a scandal about bribery. Gerald Ford was appointed Vice-President - a role he filled until RIchard Nixon also resigned on August 9th, 1974. Ford was then appointed President.
Gerald Ford is the only president who was not elected to the office. He became president after Richard Nixon resigned.
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Gerald Ford was the only U.S. president who was never elected into office. He became president after Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.
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There have been several presidents that have not been elected as president. However, these men have all been elected as vice president, and became president on the death or exit of office of the president they served under. But only one was not elected as president or vice president. That was Gerald Rudolph Ford. He was not the vice president Richard Milhous Nixon was elected with, but appointed after Spiro Theodore Agnew left. Nixon was caught with The Watergate Scandal, and resigned before impeachment. Upon resignation, Gerald Rudolph Ford became preisdent.
Gerald R. Ford is the one. He was appointed vice-president when the elected vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned and became president when President Richard Nixon resigned.
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Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller served for 25 months as the only US President and Vice President who were never elected to either position. Ford became the 38th President on August 9, 1974, and Rockefeller became the 41st Vice President on December 19, 1974.--- Both Ford (House minority leader from Michigan) and Rockefeller (longtime governor of New York) became Vice President under the 25th Amendment. Ford became Vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew, and became President after the resignation of Richard Nixon. Rockefeller was then chosen as Ford's Vice President.
Many men became President through succession, but were somehow elected to government. The only man who was not elected in any way, and became President, was Gerald Ford. This happened because Vice President Agnew resigned, Ford was appointed Vice President. Then, Richard Nixon resigned and Ford became President through succession.
Gerald Ford was never elected in a national election. He was appointed vice-president to fill out a term and became President when President Nixon resigned. He elected to Congress some 10 times by his Congressional district.
No chance. The president's spouse has no claims on the presidency . <><><> True- HOWEVER- If Bill Clinton ran as her Vice Presient, and were elected to that office, AND the President became unable to complete the term of office, THEN Bill Clinton could again become President. The Constitution provides that one may be ELECTED to the office of President only twice. He would not have been elected more than twice.
Gerald Ford was the only president of the United States who was not elected president or vice president. He took over as vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned and served as vice president under Richard Nixon. When Nixon later resigned, he became the president.