A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States), Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Gerald Ford

Alabama police in 1965 attack voting rights marchers on "Bloody Sunday", the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965

The Gunnery officers of USS Monterey (CVL-26), 1943. Ford is second from the right, in the front row.

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

United States President George W. Bush signs amendments to the Act in July 2006

A billboard for Ford's 1948 congressional campaign from Michigan's 5th district

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

The first page of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Warren Commission (Ford 4th from left) presents its report to President Johnson (1964)

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

States and counties encompassed by the Act's coverage formula in January 2008 (excluding bailed-out jurisdictions). Several counties subsequently bailed out, but the majority of the map accurately depicts covered jurisdictions before the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), which declared the coverage formula unconstitutional.

Congressman Gerald Ford, MSFC director Wernher von Braun, Congressman George H. Mahon, and NASA Administrator James E. Webb visit the Marshall Space Flight Center for a briefing on the Saturn program, 1964.

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Final page of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the Senate Hubert Humphrey, and Speaker of the House John McCormack

Gerald and Betty Ford with the President and First Lady Pat Nixon after President Nixon nominated Ford to be vice president, October 13, 1973.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Gerald Ford is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Warren Burger in the White House East Room, while Betty Ford looks on.

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

President Ford appears at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in reference to his pardon of Richard Nixon

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Ford and his golden retriever, Liberty, in the Oval Office, 1974

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ford in the Oval Office, 1975

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Ford meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to sign a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty during the Vladivostok Summit, November 1974

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Countries visited by Ford during his presidency

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Ford and his daughter Susan watch as Henry Kissinger (right) shakes hands with Mao Zedong, December 2, 1975

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Indonesian President Suharto with Ford and Kissinger in Jakarta on December 6, 1975, one day before the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Reaction immediately after the second assassination attempt

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

John Paul Stevens, Ford's only Supreme Court appointment.

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

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Governor Ronald Reagan congratulates President Ford after the president successfully wins the 1976 Republican nomination, while Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller look on.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Jimmy Carter and Ford in a presidential debate, September 23, 1976.

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

On July 16, 1980 (day 3 of the 1980 Republican National Convention) Gerald Ford consults with Bob Dole, Howard Baker and Bill Brock before making a decision to ultimately decline the offer to serve as Ronald Reagan's running mate

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Ford joins President Bill Clinton and former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter on stage at the dedication of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, November 6, 1997

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Ford at his 90th birthday with Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, and Betty Ford in the White House State Dining Room in 2003

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Ford lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

The Fords on their wedding day, October 15, 1948

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

President George W. Bush with Ford and his wife Betty on April 23, 2006

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974.

- Gerald Ford

Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the core bases of the two parties shifted, with the Southern states becoming more reliably Republican in presidential politics and the Northeastern states becoming more reliably Democratic.

- Democratic Party (United States)

In the 1976 Republican presidential primary campaign, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

- Gerald Ford

Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the party's core base shifted, with southern states becoming more reliably Republican in presidential politics.

- Republican Party (United States)

President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized this, and shortly after the 1964 elections in which Democrats gained overwhelming majorities in both chambers of Congress, he privately instructed Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to draft "the goddamndest, toughest voting rights act that you can".

- Voting Rights Act of 1965

He enlisted Dirksen to help gain Republican support.

- Voting Rights Act of 1965

He was succeeded by vice president Gerald Ford, who served a brief tenure.

- Democratic Party (United States)

He voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

- Gerald Ford

The second half of the 20th century saw the election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

- Republican Party (United States)

McCulloch's bill was co-sponsored by House minority leader Gerald Ford (R-MI) and supported by Southern Democrats as an alternative to the Voting Rights Act.

- Voting Rights Act of 1965

A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States), Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Gerald Ford

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