Todd, Stanton W. (Stanton Wesley), 1908-

During the 1940s in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a group of young Republicans led a reform movement aimed at wiping out the "bossism" of Frank M. McKay in the Republican party of Kent County. It was Gerald Ford's involvement in this reform group, called the Republican Home Front, which launched his poltical career. One of the founders of the Home Front and its chief spokesman for the period of 1942-1948 was a young Grand Rapids businessman named Stanton W. Todd, Jr.

Todd was born on September 20, 1908, in Grand Rapids. He graduated from Grand Rapids Central High School in 1926 and went on to study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He graduated in 1930, but continued his studies in political science and law until 1932. In 1934, Todd obtained a job with American Radiator Corporation of New York City and Detroit. In 1935, while in New York, he met and married Rosemary Hunt. The Todds had three children: Rosemary, Sally and Stanton III.

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