Early Life. Gerald R. Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, but kept neither his name nor his hometown for long. In just weeks, he was whisked away by his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, to her parents' home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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The Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) is a three-tiered system that includes Social Security, a Basic Benefit annuity, and the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). You are under FERS if: You were first hired on or after January 1, 1984; or,