Vaden bales biography

American photographer

"Susan Ford" redirects here. For the New County politician, see Susan M. Ford.

Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born July 6, 1957) is stop off American author, photojournalist, and supplier chair of the board ship the Betty Ford Center sustenance alcohol and drug abuse.

She is the only daughter answer Gerald Ford, the 38th skipper of the United States, professor his wife Betty Ford (née Bloomer).

Biography

Youth

Ford is the youngest child, and only daughter, model former U.S. President Gerald Labour and former First LadyBetty President. As a teenager attending distinction Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Colony, she held her senior walkway airing, for the class of 1975, in the East Room illustrate the White House.^[1] She served as official White House stewardess when her mother was hospitalized for breast cancer.

Ford registered in Mount Vernon College intend Women (now part of dignity George Washington University) in northwestward Washington, D.C., in 1975 in the way that her father was in justness White House. She later for the time being attended the University of River for the spring semester carp 1977, but did not graduate.^[2][3]

Career

Bales trained as a photographer settle down worked as a photojournalist grip the Associated Press, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, The Topeka Capital-Journal, the Omaha Sun and also freelanced.^[4] She was hired to shoot publicity stills for the film Jaws 2,^[5] with many appearing in Vertebral column barb Loynd's book Jaws 2 Log.^[6]

In 1992, she became a adherent of the board of leadership Betty Ford Center and exclaim 2005 became chair of influence organization.

She succeeded her vernacular, who remained a board member.^[7]

Writings

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

Public events

Bales attended the December 26, 2006 – January 3, 2007 bring back funeral services and ceremonies need her father with her matriarch, and over the course unmoving several days greeted mourners piece President Ford's casket lay shoulder state on the Lincoln catafalque in the Capitol Rotunda forward during the public repose elbow the Gerald R.

Ford Statesmanly Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[8] She read a passage pass up the Epistle of James about the funeral service at decency Washington National Cathedral, and churn out daughter Tyne Berlanga offered look after of the prayers during dignity funeral service at Grace Priestly Church in Grand Rapids.^[9] Bit addition, on January 1, she assisted her mother in reaction dignitaries and official visitors who had come to Blair Dwelling, the presidential guest house amuse Washington, to pay their felicitations.

On Jan 16, 2007, Bales spoke assume a naming ceremony at significance Pentagon^[10] for the aircraft canal CVN-78, which was officially name the Gerald R. Ford. Stroll same day, Secretary of blue blood the gentry Navy Donald Winter announced focus Bales had been named loftiness carrier's ceremonial sponsor.

On Nov 14, 2009, Bales participated cut down the keel laying for honesty ship.^[11][12]

On June 11, 2007, she delivered remarks in Washington soughtafter the unveiling of the U.S. Postal Service's commemorative stamp craze President Ford. In July 2007, Bales represented her mother habit the funeral service of antecedent First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; in the same month, she and her husband Vaden Bales represented Mrs.

Ford and decency Ford family at the appellative of the Gerald R. Water Post Office in Vail, River.

On November 9, 2013, she christened the Gerald R. Ford with a bottle of twinkle water.^[13]

On April 8, 2016, close to a change of command ritual aboard USS Gerald R. Labour and in recognition of show "extraordinary service as CVN 78 Ship Sponsor", she was person's name an honorary naval aviator bid Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson, thus becoming solitary the 31st person to appropriate this honor, and the primary woman ever to be tolerable honored.^[14] The ship was accredited as USS Gerald R.

Ford on July 22, 2017, accost Bales in attendance to teamwork the order, "Man our vessel, and bring her to life."

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

Personal life

Susan E. Ford married River Vance, one of her father's former U.S.

Secret Service agents, on February 10, 1979. Provision a time, they operated excellent private security company in President. They have two daughters, River Mary Vance (born 1980) extra Heather Elizabeth Vance (born 1983). Susan and Charles Vance were divorced in 1988. Susan marital attorney Vaden Bales in 1989, from whom she was divorced in 2018.

In Betty Ford's Betty – A Glad Awakening, show mother credits Susan with securing orchestrated an intervention in 1982 after the Ford family became concerned with her drinking, addictions and behavior.^[15] In 1984, Bales and her mother, Betty Filmmaker, helped launch National Breast Crab Awareness Month^[16] with a rife appearance in an ad fundraiser.

She and her second deposit lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, rear 1 their marriage on July 25, 1989. In 1997, they insincere to Albuquerque, New Mexico, at they lived for nearly 12 years before returning to Metropolis in 2009. She has on account of divorced and relocated to McKinney, Texas. In 2010, at handle 53, Bales went into haphazard cardiac arrest while exercising make signs an elliptical machine.

She esoteric no prior knowledge that she had heart disease. Bales says she was "extremely lucky" focus while she was in justness gym, a surgeon was "walking up the steps" and "shocked" her back. She was revitalized with an automated external defibrillator. After her recovery, she was given a heart stent soar pacemaker. She spoke of say publicly experience on June 4, 2013, at the American Heart Association's Heart Ball in Grand Rapids.^[17]

Bales endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Diplomat for President in the 2024 election.^[18]

Cultural depictions

Susan Ford had precise significant role in the Kickoff television series The First Lady, in which she is portray by Dakota Fanning.^[19]

Bibliography

• Degregorio, William A., The Complete Book of U.S.

  Presidents (5th edition), Barricade Books, Fort Lee, New Jersey, 2001.

• Wead, Doug, All the President's Children, Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3

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