The Ford family is an American family from the U.S. state of

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. They are best known for their control of the

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. T ...

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

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franchise of the

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since late 1963. The Ford family are also members of the Episcopal Church. Although the Ford family's ownership stake in the automaker had declined to less than 50% of the company's equity , 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

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in 1956. The family owns all of the company's Class B shares, which are collectively entitled to elect 40% of the company's

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, with the remaining 60% elected by the holders of the company's publicly traded

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Family tree

Businesses

The following is a list of businesses in which the Ford family have held a controlling or otherwise significant interest. * Dearborn Independent *

* Fontinalis Partners * Ford Lio Ho Motor *

Ford Motor Company of Canada Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited (Canadian French, French: ''Ford du Canada Limitée'') was founded on August 17, 1904, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling Ford cars in Canada. It was originally known as the Walkerville Wagon Works a ...

* Ford Otosan * Ford Times * Getrag Ford Transmissions * Matford *

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* Philco-Ford * Samcor

References

External links

Ford Family Tree

Henry Ford II Biography on IMDB

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Family tree

Businesses

References

Further reading

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