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The Ford family is an American family from the U.S. state of Michigan. They are best known for their control of the Ford Motor Company automobile manufacturer which was originally founded by Henry Ford in the early twentieth century. Henry's grandson William Clay Ford Sr. and his family have controlled the Detroit Lions franchise of the National Football League since late 1963. The Ford family are also members of the Episcopal Church.[1]
| Ford family | |
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 Henry Ford .jpg) Henry Ford II (b).jpg) William C. Ford Jr. | |
| Current region | Michigan, U.S. |
| Founded |
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| Founder | William Ford |
| Connected families | Firestone |
| Estate(s) | Fair Lane Edsel and Eleanor Ford House |
Although the Ford family's ownership stake in the automaker had declined to less than 50% of the company's equity as of 2010[update], the family retained operational control through a special class of stock that was established early in the company's history and retained when the company made its initial public offering in 1956.[2][3][4][5] The family owns all of the company's Class B shares, which are collectively entitled to elect 40% of the company's board of directors, with the remaining 60% elected by the holders of the company's publicly traded common stock.
| Isaac Ford (1749—?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Ford (1775—1818?) | Rebecca Jennings (1776—1851) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Samuel Ford (c. 1792—1842) | Jonathan "John" Ford (c. 1799—1864) | Thomasine Smith (1803—1847) | George Ford (c. 1811—1864) | Henry Ford (c. 1813—?) | Stephen Ford (1815—?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Ford [Flaherty] (1825—1895) | William Ford (1826—1905) | Mary Litogot O'Hern (c. 1839—1876) | Jane Ford [Smith] (1829—1851) | Henry Ford Sr. (1840—1901) | Mary Ford [Ford] (c. 1832—1882) | Nancy Ford [Flaherty] (1834—1920) | Samuel Ford (1837—1884) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infant (1861—1861) | Ford Founder Henry Ford (1863—1947) | Clara Jane Bryant (1866—1950) | John Ford (c. 1865—1927) | Margaret Ford [Ruddiman] (1867—1960) | Jane Ford (c. 1869—1906) | William Ford (1871—1959) | Robert Ford (1873—1934) | Infant (c. 1876—1876) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edsel Ford (1893—1943) | Eleanor Lowthian Clay (1896—1976) | Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (1898—1973) | Elizabeth Parke (1897—1990) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Ford II (1917—1987) | Anne McDonnell (1919—1996) | Benson Ford Sr. (1919—1978) | Edith McNaughton (1920—1980) | Josephine Clay Ford [Ford] (1923—2005) | Walter Buhl Ford II (1920—1991) | William Clay Ford Sr. (1925—2014) | Martha Parke Firestone (b. 1925) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charlotte M. Ford (b. 1941) | Anne Ford (b. 1943) | Edsel Ford II (b. 1948) | Walter Buhl Ford III (1943—2010) | Eleanor Clay Ford [Sullivan] (b. 1946) | Josephine Clay Ford [Ingle] (b. 1949) | Alfred Brush Ford (b. 1950) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elena Anne Ford (b. 1966) | Benson Ford Jr. (b. 1949) | Lynn Ford [Alandt] (b. 1951) | Martha Parke "Muffy" Ford [Morse] (b. 1948) | Sheila Ford [Hamp] (b. 1951) | William Clay Ford Jr. (b. 1957) | Elizabeth Ford [Kontulis] (b. 1961) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following is a list of businesses in which the Ford family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest.
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