John "Jack" Gardner Ford (born March 16, 1952) is the second child and second son of U.S. President Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

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 and First Lady

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 Betty Ford

Betty Ford

Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford , better known as Betty Ford, was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford...

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In 1977, with William Randolph Hearst III

William Randolph Hearst III

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 and Jann Wenner

Jann Wenner

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, he was part of the founding staff of the magazine Outside

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. Ford later cofounded a successful business called California Infoplace (www.infoplaceusa.com), which supplies electronic information kiosks to malls. In 1996, as a veteran of six Republican

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 conventions, he was asked to serve as executive director of the host committee for the Republican National Convention

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 in San Diego, California

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On April 29, 1989, he married Juliann Felando. They have two children:

• Christian Gerald (born 1997)
• Jonathan August (born 1999)

On January 2, 2007, at the Grand Rapids, Michigan, funeral of his father, Jack and his wife greeted mourners during the viewing of the casket.