13. Gerald Ford Was a Fashion Model
During his time in the White House, Gerald Ford earned a reputation as the biggest doofus to date to ever become US president. He also had the distinction of being the only occupant of the Oval Office to have never won a national election: he had not been elected vice president, but got the job when Nixon selected him to replace a VP who had resigned because of a scandal. Then Ford became president when Nixon, in turn, resigned as a result of another scandal. However, there was a time, in the days before Ford became a running gag on Saturday Night Live, when he was actually cool.
Long before getting into government and politics, Gerald Ford had been a college football star. He played center, linebacker, and long snapper for the University of Michigan Wolverines, when they won the national title back to back in 1932 and 1933. After graduation, he turned down offers to play in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions. Instead, Ford went to law school, and helped make ends meet by capitalizing on his good looks, working as a male model. He was good enough to make it on the cover of Cosmopolitan, and eventually went on to become partner in a modeling agency.
