Objective biography of ronald reagan jr

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(1911 – 2004)

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Biography current as of induction in 2006

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, the son of Nelle Wilson Reagan and John Reagan. He was educated in Illinois public schools and graduated from Eureka College in 1932, with a degree in economics and sociology.

Following a brief career as a sports broadcaster and editor, President Reagan moved to California to work in motion pictures. His film career, interrupted by three years of service in the Army Air Corps during World War II, encompassed 53 feature-length motion pictures.

He served six terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild and two terms as president of the Motion Picture Industry Council.

In 1952, he married Nancy Davis. They had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott. President Reagan had another daughter, Maureen Elizabeth and an adopted son, Michael Edward, from a previous marriage.

From motion pictures, he went into television in the 1950’s, as production supervisor and host of “General Electric Theatre.” In 1964-65, he was host of the television series, “Death Valley Days.”

In 1966, Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California, by nearly a million-vote margin. He served as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 1969. He was elected to a second term as Governor of California in 1970. After completing his second term, he began a nationally syndicated radio commentary program and several newspaper columns. He also undertook an extensive schedule of speeches to civic, business and political groups.

In 1980, the American people overwhelmingly elected him their fortieth president. Proclaiming an era of national renewal at his inauguration, President Reagan articulated a clear vision of American national purpose based upon his passionate conviction, shared with the people, that the United States represents the “last, best hope” for human freedom, dignity, and democracy in

President of the United States from 1981 to 1989

"Reagan" redirects here. For other uses, see Ronald Reagan (disambiguation) and Reagan (disambiguation).

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.

Born in Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and was hired the next year as a sports broadcaster in Iowa. In 1937, he moved to Califor

American liberal political commentator

For his father and the 40th president of the United States, see Ronald Reagan. For other people named Ron Reagan, see Ronald Reagan (disambiguation).

Ronald Prescott "Ron" Reagan (born May 20, 1958) is an American political commentator and broadcaster. Reagan is a former radio host and political analyst for KIRO and Air America Radio, with which he hosted his own daily three-hour show. He has also been a contributor to MSNBC. His liberal views contrast with those of his conservative father, President Ronald Reagan. He has been an outspoken critic of the modern-day Republican Party and has insisted his father would be "ashamed" over the influence of Donald Trump in the Republican Party. Ron Reagan is the only biological son of Ronald Reagan.

Early life and education

Reagan was born on May 20, 1958, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is the only son of Ronald Reagan and his second wife, Nancy Davis Reagan. The family lived in Sacramento while his father was governor, from 1967 to 1975. His sister, Patti Davis, is five and a half years older. His older adoptive brother Michael Reagan, adopted as an infant by Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, is 13 years older. He also had two half-sisters born to Reagan and Wyman, Maureen Reagan (1941–2001) and Christine Reagan, who was born prematurely on June 26, 1947, and died the same day.

Ron Reagan undertook a different philosophical and political path from his father at an early age. At 12, he told his parents he would not be going to church anymore because he was an atheist.

Reagan attended and was expelled from The Webb School of California. He commented:

They [the school administration] thought I was a bad influence on the other kids. As I recall, the immediate reason was I went to a dance at a neighboring girl's school in a classmate's car. This was an infraction. They had been looking fo

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the son of Jack and Nelle Reagan, was born in a small apartment above the Pitney General Store on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, His family, which included older brother Neil, moved to a succession of Illinois towns as his salesman father searched for a well-paying job. In 1920, the Reagans settled in Dixon.

Jack Reagan was a gregarious man with a grade-school education who made his way as a salesman, usually of shoes. He was a dreamer and also an alcoholic. Years later, Ronald Reagan recalled the searing experiences of being the child of an alcoholic father, including an incident where he dragged a "passed out" Jack Reagan into the house from the snow.

Jack and Nelle were both Democrats; in religion he was a Roman Catholic, and she an active member of the Disciples of Christ. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, Jack Reagan was rewarded for his Democratic activism by being named the local director of the Works Progress Administration, a federal agency created by Roosevelt to provide work for jobless Americans. Neil Reagan was also employed by the WPA. Ronald Reagan remembered his father as being fiercely opposed to racial and religious intolerance. He refused to allow his children to see the film Birth of a Nation, because it glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Jack Reagan died in 1941.

Ronald's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, nurtured and encouraged her sons. She taught them that alcoholism was a disease and urged them not to blame their father for succumbing to it. She had married Jack Reagan in a Catholic ceremony, and the older son Neil was raised as a Catholic. Both boys believed that Neil took after his father and Ronald more after his mother. Nelle raised Ronald in her church, the Disciples of Christ. She was a relentless do-gooder, visiting prisoners, poorhouse inmates, and hospital patients. She also organized drama recitals—some of which featured her sons—and w