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Ford was U.S. Navy Air Corps during World War II. He married Martha Firestone, the granddaughter of Harvey Firestone and Idabelle Smith Firestone on 21 June 1947. They have four children - Martha, Sheila, Elizabeth, and William Clay Ford, Jr. Ford received a BS in Economics from Yale University in 1949 and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. In 1963, Ford purchased a controlling interest in the Detroit Lions of the National Football League from the previous owners D. Lyle Fife and Edwin Anderson for $4.5 million.

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  • William Clay Ford, Sr.
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  • Ford was U.S. Navy Air Corps during World War II. He married Martha Firestone, the granddaughter of Harvey Firestone and Idabelle Smith Firestone on 21 June 1947. They have four children - Martha, Sheila, Elizabeth, and William Clay Ford, Jr. Ford received a BS in Economics from Yale University in 1949 and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. In 1963, Ford purchased a controlling interest in the Detroit Lions of the National Football League from the previous owners D. Lyle Fife and Edwin Anderson for $4.5 million.
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Birth Date
  • 1925-03-14(xsd:date)
Spouse
  • --06-21
Name
  • Ford, William Clay, Sr.
  • William Clay Ford, Sr.
Education
  • Yale University, Bachelor of Science , 1949
Birth Place
  • Detroit, Michigan, United States
Children
  • Elizabeth Hudson Ford Kontulis
  • Martha Parke "Muffy" Ford Morse
  • Sheila Firestone Hamp Active in Ford Corporate Charities
  • William Clay Ford, Jr. - Executive Chairman of Ford Motors
Occupation
  • Detroit Lions and team owner , businessman, former CEO of, and presently a board executive for, Ford Motor Company
Date of Birth
  • 1925-03-14(xsd:date)
Birth name
  • William Clay Ford
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  • Ford was U.S. Navy Air Corps during World War II. He married Martha Firestone, the granddaughter of Harvey Firestone and Idabelle Smith Firestone on 21 June 1947. They have four children - Martha, Sheila, Elizabeth, and William Clay Ford, Jr. Ford received a BS in Economics from Yale University in 1949 and was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He worked for the Ford Motor Company and was briefly head of the Continental Division. This division was short lived, and was merged with Lincoln shortly before Ford's public stock offering. He updated the Continental that his father had created, and in 1955 the Continental Mark II was released. It is said there were only 2 pictures on the wall in his office at Ford HQ, his father's Continental, and his updated Mark II In 1963, Ford purchased a controlling interest in the Detroit Lions of the National Football League from the previous owners D. Lyle Fife and Edwin Anderson for $4.5 million. He was chairman of the most important of the directors' committees, the Finance Committee. He sat on the Ford Board of Directors for 57 years, retiring on May 12, 2005. His son, William Clay, Jr. was serving as Ford's CEO at the time. According to the Forbes 400, he was the 283rd richest man in America, with a net worth of over $1.2 billion, as of 2012.
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