# Henry Ford

> He didn't invent the car, but he made it something a factory worker could own. The assembly line, the $5 workday, the Model T rolling off at fifteen million units - Ford turned automobiles from rich men's toys into the machinery of American life.

*American business magnate (1863-1947)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/henry-ford

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Founder ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524))
- **Category:** Founders
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1863-07-30
- **Died:** 1947-04-07
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ford was born on a Michigan farmhouse on July 30, 1863, left at sixteen for Detroit, and spent the late 1880s repairing engines before working with Edison Electric through the 1890s. He founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 after earlier business failures, and in 1908 the Model T arrived - a vehicle that revolutionized transportation and made him one of the wealthiest men alive. He pioneered the five-day work-week and a franchise system that put dealerships across six continents, believing consumerism could secure peace. But the 1920s brought The Dearborn Independent and The International Jew, a turn into antisemitism that stained the name, and he opposed entering World War II, sitting for a time on the America First Committee board. After his son Edsel died in 1943 Ford retook control, too frail to lead, and handed the company to his grandson Henry Ford II in 1945. He died April 7, 1947, leaving most of his fortune to the Ford Foundation.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 83.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 28.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 15.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Literature, #Politics, #Journalism, #Science, #United States, #Americas

## Timeline
- **2012** - American Royal BBQ Hall of Fame
- **1984** - National Aviation Hall of Fame
- **1982** - National Inventors Hall of Fame
- **1947** - Died
- **1944** - Washington Award
- **1938** - Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle
- **1938** - Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches
- **1936** - Holley Medal
- **1928** - Elliott Cresson Medal
- **1863** - Born

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