After her husband Claude Hansen, owner of Waterford Motors, Ford dealer, in Waterford was killed in a hunting accident in 1931. Ruth Hansen, his wife, was the only woman to run a Ford Dealership in the United States. She ran the dealership from 1932 to 1947 when she sold it to Henry Kissinger.
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