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Susan Ford (Susan Elizabeth Ford) was born on 6 July, 1957 in Washington, D.C., U.S., is an American photographer. Discover Susan Ford's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Susan Elizabeth Ford
Occupation Author · photojournalist
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 6 July 1957
Birthday 6 July
Birthplace Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality United States

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Who Is Susan Ford's Husband?

Her husband is Charles Vance (m. 1979-1988) Vaden Bales (m. 1989-2018)

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Parents Gerald Ford Betty Ford
Husband Charles Vance (m. 1979-1988) Vaden Bales (m. 1989-2018)
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Susan Ford Net Worth

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1938

She is the only daughter of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States and his wife Betty Ford née Bloomer.

Ford is the youngest child and only daughter of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford.

1957

Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born July 6, 1957) is an American author, photojournalist, and former chair of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse.

1975

As a teenager attending the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, she held her senior prom, for the class of 1975, in the East Room of the White House.

She served as official White House hostess when her mother was hospitalized for breast cancer.

Ford enrolled in Mount Vernon College for Women (now part of the George Washington University) in northwest Washington, D.C. in 1975 when her father was in the White House.

1977

She later briefly attended the University of Kansas for the spring semester of 1977, but did not graduate.

Bales trained as a photographer and worked as a photojournalist for the Associated Press, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Omaha Sun and also freelanced.

She was hired to shoot publicity stills for the film Jaws 2, with many appearing in Ray Loynd's book Jaws 2 Log.

1979

Susan E. Ford married Charles Vance, one of her father's former U.S. Secret Service agents, on February 10, 1979.

For a time, they operated a private security company in Washington.

1980

They have two daughters, Tyne Mary Vance (born 1980) and Heather Elizabeth Vance (born 1983).

1982

In Betty Ford's Betty – A Glad Awakening, her mother credits Susan with having orchestrated an intervention in 1982 after the Ford family became concerned with her drinking, addictions and behavior.

1984

In 1984, Bales and her mother, Betty Ford, helped launch National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a joint appearance in an ad campaign.

1988

Susan and Charles Vance were divorced in 1988.

1989

Susan married attorney Vaden Bales in 1989, from whom she was divorced in 2018.

She and her second husband lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after their marriage on July 25, 1989.

1992

In 1992, she became a member of the board of the Betty Ford Center and in 2005 became chair of the organization.

She succeeded her mother, who remained a board member.

1997

In 1997, they moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they lived for nearly 12 years before returning to Tulsa in 2009.

She has since divorced and relocated to McKinney, Texas.

2002

In 2002, Bales wrote, with Laura Hayden, a novel, Double Exposure: A First Daughter Mystery, with a contemporary White House setting; in 2005, a sequel, Sharp Focus, was published.

2006

Bales attended the December 26, 2006 – January 3, 2007 state funeral services and ceremonies for her father with her mother, and over the course of several days greeted mourners while President Ford's casket lay in state on the Lincoln Catafalque in the Capitol Rotunda and during the public repose at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

She read a passage from the Epistle of James during the funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, and her daughter Tyne Berlanga offered one of the prayers during the funeral service at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids.

In addition, on January 1, she assisted her mother in receiving dignitaries and official visitors who had come to Blair House, the presidential guest house in Washington, to pay their respects.

2007

On January 16, 2007, Bales spoke at a naming ceremony at the Pentagon for the aircraft carrier CVN-78, which was officially named the Gerald R. Ford.

That same day, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter announced that Bales had been named the carrier's ceremonial sponsor.

On June 11, 2007, she delivered remarks in Washington at the unveiling of the U.S. Postal Service's commemorative stamp honoring President Ford.

In July 2007, Bales represented her mother at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; in the same month, she and her husband Vaden Bales represented Mrs. Ford and the Ford family at the naming of the Gerald R. Ford Post Office in Vail, Colorado.

2009

On November 14, 2009, Bales participated in the keel laying for the ship.

2010

In 2010, at age 53, Bales went into sudden cardiac arrest while exercising on an elliptical machine.

She had no prior knowledge that she had heart disease.

Bales says she was "extremely lucky" that while she was in the gym, a surgeon was "walking up the steps" and "shocked" her back.

She was revived with an automated external defibrillator.

After her recovery, she was given a heart stent and pacemaker.

2013

On November 9, 2013, she christened the Gerald R. Ford with a bottle of sparkling water.

She spoke of the experience on June 4, 2013, at the American Heart Association's Heart Ball in Grand Rapids.

2016

On April 8, 2016, during a change of command ceremony aboard USS Gerald R. Ford and in recognition of her "extraordinary service as CVN 78 Ship Sponsor", she was named an honorary naval aviator by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson, thus becoming only the 31st person to receive this honor, and the first woman ever to be so honored.

2017

The ship was commissioned as USS Gerald R. Ford on July 22, 2017, with Bales in attendance to give the order, "Man our ship, and bring her to life."

2018

In 2018, Bales represented the Ford family at the funerals of President George H.W. and First Lady Barbara Bush.