John Gardner Ford

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John "Jack" Gardner Ford (born March 16, 1952) (age 56) is the second child and second son of U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.

In 1977, with William Randolph Hearst III and Jann Wenner, he was part of the founding staff of the magazine Outside. Ford later cofounded a successful business called California Infotech, which supplies electronic information kiosks to malls. In 1996, as a veteran of six Republican conventions, he was asked to serve as executive director of the host committee for the Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.

On 29 April 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.

[edit] References

• Wead, Doug, All the President's Children, Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3