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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Gerald Ford was the only president born in Nebraska, but he lived in Omaha only a couple of weeks before his mother, fleeing an abusive marriage, left the state with her infant son.
Today a small park and historic conservation center, both named for Ford, mark the site of the president's birth, but the home where he was born burned down in 1971.
Ford's mother, the former Dorothy Gardner, married Leslie King Sr., a banker's son, on Sept. 7, 1912. The late president was born Leslie King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in the King family mansion in Omaha.
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