Ronald Wilson Reagan

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Ronald Wilson Reagan

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• Mr. Haskell
• Period 4

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Childhood

• Born February 6, 1911
• Tampico, Illinois
• Nelle and Jack Reagan
• Older brother Neil Reagan
• Raised in Dixon
• Baptized as a Christian
• Worked a s a lifeguard in High School saving 77
  lives

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Educational Background

• Graduated from Dixon High School as student body
  President
• Drama, Basketball, Football and Track
• Eureka College, with BA in economics and
  sociology
• Drama, Football and Swimming, Student Body
  President
• Organized student strike
• Made first speech as Freshman in High School

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Professional Life

• 1932 Temporary staff announcer at radio station
  WOC in Davenport, Iowa.
• 1933 WOC WHO, chief sports announcer.
• 1937 Second Lieutenant in the Reserve Corps of
  Cavalry.
• Contract player for Warner Bros, actor
• Spokesman for General Electric Company
• 1966 Governor of California

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Hollywood Years

• Love is on the Air, first Warner Bros pic
• Met first wife in picture, Brother Rat
• That Hagen Girl, with Shirley Temple
• Bedtime for Bozo
• Last Picture, The Winning Team
• TV host spokesman, Death Valley Days
• Appeared in 53 films

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Family and Social Life

• 1940 married actress Jane Wyman, met on Brother
  Rat
• 1941, first child Maureen Reagan
• 1945, adopted son Michael was born
• 1949, divorce to Jane
• 1952 Married Nancy Davis, actress
• 1952 Patricia Reagan born
• 1958 Ronald Skipper Prescott

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Political Life

• President of Screen Actors Guild, communism
• Democrat gone Republican
• 1964 Friends of Ronald Reagan support group
  formed.
• 1966Governor of California
• 1980 ran against George Bush and won

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Presidency

• 40th President of the US, landslide victory
• Oldest Man elected President
• American Hostages in Iran released
• 69 days after took office, assassination attempt
• Cut taxes, stimulated economic growth
• Appointed first woman to Supreme Court
• Strengthen National Defense
• Improve relations with S.U.
• He sent United States soldiers into Grenada and
  commanded soldiers out of Lebanon.
• Maintained free-flow of oil during Iran-Iraq war

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Post Presidency

• Struck with Alzheimers Disease
• Still lives today
• "...peace is the highest aspiration of the
  American People. We will negotiate for it,
  sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it,
  now or ever." - January 20, 1981

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Work Cited

• American Presidents Life Portraits,
  http//www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/presi
  dent.asp?PresidentNumber39, 3/24/02
• Ronald Reagan An American Hero,
  http//www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/biography/,
  3/22/02
• Ronald Reagan, http//www.whitehouse.gov/history
  / presidents/rr40.htmlx 3/25/02
• The Official Site http//www.ronaldreagan.com/
• 3/26/02