As a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, he helped grow the party into a dominant force in the South ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home ...

I said, ‘If you hear the burglar alarm, call the cops,’” Betty recalled as we sat down to talk over tea at a cafe in East Sacramento one afternoon in November. “I thought if there was trouble, it ...

Born: July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska... Gerald Ford, who had never entered a national election, succeeded to both the vice presidency and the presidency without having received a single vote.

Gerald Ford. On September 8, 1974, Ford issued a pardon of former president Richard Nixon that was so sweeping that it practically condemned future generations of Americans to being governed by ...

During the 1976 Republican National Convention, delegates were closely divided between President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. Reed united the Mississippi delegation behind ...