Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford
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| Date | December 30, 2006 – January 3, 2007 (state funeral) December 27, 2006 – January 25, 2007 (mourning period) |
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| Location | Capitol Rotunda, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Participants | Jimmy Carter George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Dick Cheney Members of the 109th United States Congress Members-elect of the 110th United States Congress |
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On December 26, 2006, Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States and the 40th vice president, died at his home in Rancho Mirage, California at 6:45 p.m. local time (02:45, December 27, UTC). At 8:49 p.m. local time, his wife of 58 years, Betty Ford, issued a statement announcing his death. The causes of death listed on the death certificate were arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis.
At the age of 93 years and 165 days, Ford was the longest-lived U.S. president in history at the time of his death, a record which has since been surpassed by George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter.
Ford was the second president to die during the presidency of George W. Bush and the second to die in the twenty-first century, the first being Ronald Reagan.