Awards & Honors
1928: Was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal.
1938: Ford was presented the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, which happens to be the highest medal awarded by Nazi Germany to foreigners.
1999: Was among 18 included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th Century, from a poll conducted of the American people.
1965-78: United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series.