State of South Dakota
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EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2013
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634U0778
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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1010
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Introduced by: Representative Bolin and Senators Otten (Ernie) and Lucas
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Recognizing the achievements of President Gerald Ford.
WHEREAS, Gerald Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States, was born on
July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska; and
WHEREAS, as a young man, Gerald Ford was a Boy Scout and achieved the rank of Eagle
Scout; and
WHEREAS, Gerald Ford was an outstanding athlete in his adopted home town of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and was an All-American football player at the University of Michigan in the
1930s; and
WHEREAS, Gerald Ford earned a law degree from Yale University; and
WHEREAS, Gerald Ford served his country admirably in the United States Navy during
WWII; and
WHEREAS, after WWII, Gerald Ford ran for Congress and served twenty-five consecutive
years in the United States House of Representatives from 1949-1974; and
WHEREAS, during his time in Congress, Gerald Ford served honorably on the Warren
Commission, the official government investigation of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy; and
WHEREAS, in 1974, Gerald Ford became President upon the resignation of Richard Nixon:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-Eighth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the
Legislature of South Dakota remembers that Gerald Ford served admirably, nobly, and honestly
as President, restoring the people's trust in that office, and, that in this one hundredth year since
the birth of Gerald Ford, does honor his memory and service to his nation and to his fellow man.