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Ronald Wilson Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. He was the son of John Edward Reagan and Nelle Wilson Reagan. John Reagan was a shoe salesman while Nelle Reagan was a homemaker and occasional shop clerk. His father gave Ronald the nickname “Dutch”. He had a brother named John Neil Reagan (1909-1996) who was an advertising executive.
When Ronald attended high school he was out for football, basketball, track and swimming. He was elected president of the Student Council and worked as a lifeguard.
One he finished high school Reagan attended Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois in 1928. He majored in economics and sociology. While in college he was out for football, track and he was captain of the swim team and was elected President of the Student Body. Ronald graduated in 1932.
After Ronald graduated from college he became a radio announcer for WOC in Daven Port Iowa, but moved on to WHO radio in Des Moines Iowa. Here he did play-by-play accounts of major league baseball games, Big Ten football games and other sports events.
After doing radio Ronald started doing movies. He entered the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942, but he was not allowed to go into battle due to his vision. He spent the war in Hollywood helping make training films. He was discharged in 1945 as captain. In 1952 he finished his last picture with Warner Brothers. The name of the movie was The Winning Team.
On January 25, 1940 Ronald Reagan married Jane Wyman. They had a daughter named Maureen Elizabeth Reagan who was born in 1941 and died in 2001. They had a son named Michael Edward who was born in 1945. Jane and Ronald were divorced in 1948.
Reagan married Nancy Davis March 4, 1952. They had a daughter named Patricia Ann Reagan who was born in 1952 and a son named Ronald Prescott who was born in 1958.
On November 8, 1966 California elected Ronald Reagan as their new governor. By a vote of 3,742,913 to 2,749,174 Reagan won the election. When Reagan was first elected governor the state of California was in debt $194 million dollars which he took care of by instructing all state agencies to cut there budget by 10 percent and by ordering a freeze on the hiring of new state workers. In 1970 Reagan was voted in a second term. Reagan spent eight years in California’s statehouse.

On Election Day, November 4, 1980, Americans decided they wanted Ronald Reagan as president. On January 20, 1981 for Ronald Reagan’s swearing-in ceremony he said, “Now, so there will be no misunderstanding it’s not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work-work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back.” On January 20, 1985 President Reagan took his second oath of office.
When Ronald Reagan took office the inflation rate was over 13 percent. Reagan’s plan for fixing these problems was based on supply-side economics. According to supply-side theory, increasing the amount of money in people’s hands would increase both investment and demand, making the economy stronger.

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During Reagan’s second term the country of Libya had been providing Arab terrorists groups with guns and shelter within their country. “By providing material support to terrorist groups which attack U.S. citizens,” Reagan announced in December 1985, “Libya has engaged in armed aggression against the United States.” On April 5, 1986, a terrorist bomb demolished a West Berlin nightclub often visited by U.S. soldiers. On April 15, 1986 early in the morning U.S. fighter-bombers flew through the sky above the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. The bombers dropped 2,000 pound bombs on terrorist-related targets for the half hour the surprise attack lasted.
On March 30, 1981 President Reagan was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. when John Hinckley Jr. shot 6 bullets at Reagan, James Brady, Tim McCarthy and Thomas Delanty. James Brady the White House Press Secretary was shot in the head. Police officer Thomas Delanty was shot in the neck. Timothy McCarthy tried to guard President Reagan and a bullet hit him in the abdomen. Terry Parr shoved Reagan into a Limousine. They soon found out Reagan was hit by a bullet in the lung. He was rushed to a hospital where he was treated.
In July 1985 doctors discovered a tumor two inches long growing on his large intestine. Reagan underwent cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland on July 13. A two-foot section of his large intestine was removed.
Ronald Reagan lived to the age of 93. He died June 5, 2004. Reagan died at his home in Bel Air, California. He died of pneumonia. Reagan was given a full presidential state funeral on June 9. The funeral was held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He was buried at his presidential library in California. Reagan holds the record for the longest-lived U.S. president, at 93 years and 120 days. Reagan also holds the record for the oldest-elected president at 69 and oldest president to serve at 77.