Ford later told confidants that his father had first hit his mother when she smiled at another man during their honeymoon.After living with her parents for two-and-a-half years, Gardner married Gerald Rudolff Ford on February 1, 1916. 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.
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