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Gerald Ford was never elected. He became Vice President after the resignation of Spiro Agnew and succeeded to the Presidency August 9th 1974. Ford served the remainder of Nixon's term. He lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter.

When the president of the U.s.A Mr Richard Nixon, had to resign due to the watergate , then Gerald Ford had to take over and won the next election. incident

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