Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College. After living with her parents for two-and-a-half years, Gardner married Gerald Rudolff Ford on February 1, 1916. Gerald was a salesman in a family-owned paint and varnish company. Gerald was a salesman in a family-owned paint and varnish company. They now called her son Gerald Rudolff Ford Jr. The future president was never formally adopted and did not legally change his name until December 3, 1935; he also used a more conventional spelling of his middle name. He was raised in Grand Rapids with his three half-brothers from his mother's second marriage: Thomas Gardner 'Tom' Ford (1918–1995), Richard Addison 'Dick' Ford (1924–2015), and James Francis 'Jim' Ford (1927–2001).