Henry Ford - Honors

Honors

  • In December 1999, Ford was among 18 included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th Century, from a poll conducted of the American people.
  • In 1928, Ford was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal.
  • In 1938, Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, a medal given to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism.
  • The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 12¢ postage stamp.

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