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Edsel Ford II - Wikipedia

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Edsel Ford II
Ford in 2018
Born	Edsel Bryant Ford II (1948-12-27) December 27, 1948 (age 75) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Board of Directors at Ford Motor Company
Spouse	Cynthia Ford (m. 1974)
Children	Henry III Calvin Stewart Albert
Parent(s)	Henry Ford II Anne McDonnell Ford Johnson

Edsel Bryant Ford II (born December 27, 1948) is the great-grandson of Henry Ford I, grandson of Edsel Ford I, and the only son of Henry Ford II. He served as a member of the board of directors of Ford Motor Company for 33 years before announcing his retirement, and serves on the finance committee and sustainability and innovation committee. He is a cousin of the company's Executive Chairman, William Clay Ford Jr.^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

Ford attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1968 from The Gunnery in Washington, Connecticut before entering Babson College.^[3]^[4] He received his business administration bachelor's degree at Babson and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School in 1981.^[3]

Career

Between 1978 and 1980, Edsel ran sales and marketing at Ford Australia.^[5]

As a board member of Ford, Edsel has been active in company affairs and corporate dealer relations.^[1] He was named president and chief operating officer of Ford Motor Credit Company in 1991, and elected a Ford Vice President in 1993.^[3] In 2013, Edsel was awarded the Keith Crain/Automotive News Lifetime Achievement Award.^[6] Long seen as the public face of Ford Motor Company's motor racing efforts, particularly in NASCAR, in May 2019, Edsel was nominated for and won the NASCAR Hall of Fame's Landmark Award.^[7]^[8] His retirement was announced in 2021 and his son Henry Ford III was elected to the board to replace him at the May shareholders' meeting.^[2]^[9]

Edsel purchased Pentastar Aviation in 2001.^[10]

Personal life

Ford is married to Cynthia Layne Neskow and they have four sons:

Henry Ford III, who works for the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, and serves on the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation.^[11]^[12]
Calvin Ford, who works for Pentastar Aviation in Waterford, Michigan.
Stewart Ford, who works for an automotive mobility company in San Francisco, California.
Albert Ford, who attends Fordham University School of Law in New York City, New York.

Edsel Ford II is the chairman of the board of the Henry Ford Estate - Fair Lane in Dearborn, Michigan. He serves on the board of The Henry Ford.^[13] He is currently^[when?] the director emeritus of the board of directors at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, and also served on the board of trustees for the Skillman Foundation.^[14] He was previously chairman of the National Advisory Board of the Salvation Army and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch. Appointed by then-mayor Dennis Archer, Ford was the chairman of Detroit 300, a major civic and philanthropic effort that organized the celebration of the city of Detroit's 300th birthday in 2001.^[15] Ford was then appointed as the founding chairman of the Detroit 300 Conservancy and was instrumental in the development and construction of Campus Martius Park (which the conservancy continues to maintain).^[16]

On Monday July 4, 2016, Edsel was arrested at his home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan on domestic violence charges stemming from a phone call made by his wife Cynthia.^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b "Board of Directors, Ford Motor Company". Retrieved 20 November 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Edsel B Ford II retires from Ford board, more Fords join". ABC News. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021 – via Associated Press.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Edsel B. Ford II | Ford Media Center". media.ford.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
^ "Edsel Bryant Ford II - Most Connected 2015 | Crain's Detroit Business". Crain's Detroit Business. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
^ Clark, Andrew (30 August 1979). "Edsel Ford in Australia: Young Man in No Hurry". New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
^ "Edsel B. Ford II to receive award from Keith Crain". Automotive News. 2012-10-08. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^ "Landmark Award". Nascar Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^ "Stewart, Gibbs top NASCAR Hall of Fame class". Reuters. 2019-05-23. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^ "Our Leadership".
^ "Owner & CEO, Pentastar Aviation". Retrieved 18 March 2013.
^ "Ford Foundation elects Henry Ford III to Board of Trustees". Ford Foundation. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
^ Baime, A.J. (February 2, 2015). "Fifty Sense". Autoweek. 65 (3): 40–44. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
^ "Mission & Board of Trustees". The Henry Ford.
^ "Crain's Most Connected". Crain's Detroit Business. Crain Communications. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
^ Serwach, Joseph (13 December 2005). "EDSEL FORD'S WORK AIDS THE COMMUNITY". Automotive News. Crain Communications.
^ "Conservancy Background". Detroit 300 Conservancy.
^ Allen, Robert. "City prosecutor says Edsel Ford II won't face domestic violence charge". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2021-11-15.

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Edsel B. Ford II Biography Archived 2021-01-23 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Henry Ford
Life and history	Ford Motor Company history Ford Model T The Dearborn Independent
Residences	Fair Lane Edison and Ford Winter Estates
Family	Clara Bryant Ford (wife) Edsel Ford (son) Henry Ford II (grandson) Josephine Clay Ford (granddaughter) William Clay Ford Sr. (grandson) Edsel Ford II (great-grandson) Alfred Ford (great-grandson) Sheila Ford Hamp (great-granddaughter) William Clay Ford Jr. (great-grandson) Elena Ford (great-granddaughter)
Other	Fordism Car Entrepreneur of the Century The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
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v t e NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2020
Inducted Members	Buddy Baker Joe Gibbs Bobby Labonte Tony Stewart Waddell Wilson
Squier Hall Award	Dick Berggren
Landmark Award	Edsel Ford II

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