Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. At 69 years of age at the time of his first inauguration, Reagan was the oldest first-term U.S. president. He died at home on June 5, 2004, from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Reagan was raised in a low-income family in small towns of northern Illinois. At 69 years of age at the time of his first inauguration, Reagan was the oldest first-term U.S. president, a distinction he held until 2017 when Donald Trump was inaugurated at age 70. He died at home on June 5, 2004, from Alzheimer’s disease. His tenure constituted a realignment of policies in the general public place of his presidency among the upper tier of American presidents. He was the younger son of Jack and Nelle Reagan, a salesman and storyteller whose grandparents were Irish Catholic emigrants from Tipperary County, Tipperaroo County, Illinois. His older brother, Neil Reagan, became an advertising executive and became an executive of Reagan Communications, a company that later became a major advertiser in television, radio, and print. His father nicknamed him ‘Dutchman’ due to his little appearance and his Dutch-boy haircut; the family nickname stuck with him throughout his youth and into his adulthood. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and his daughter, Nancy Reagan, who is a former First Lady of the U.K. and a former first lady of California. He also has a son, Ronald Reagan Jr., who was a Republican congressman from California and served in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993.
He has a daughter, Mary Reagan, and a son-in-law, Neil Ronald Reagan, both of whom served as governors of California in the 1960s and ’70s. He had a grandson, Ronald Ronald Reagan III, who was elected to the Senate from California in 1998 and served two terms as governor of the state. He served as president of California between 1981 and 1989. His son, Neil, was an executive at Reagan Communications and later an executive with the Reagan Foundation, a think tank that promotes conservative causes and causes. Reagan is the brother of former Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State John Kerry, who also served as President of the US from 1989 to 1993, and served as vice president from 1993 to 1994. Reagan died in 2004 at the age of 80. He leaves behind a wife, Mary, and two daughters, Nancy and Nancy Reagan Jr. and daughter Nancy Reagan-Reagan, who were both elected to Congress in 1994. He will be buried in a private funeral in Rancho Cucamonga, California, where he lived with his wife and two sons, Ronald and Ronald Jr. The couple also had a son named Neil Reagan. Reagan’s father, Jack Reagan, was a salesman, salesman, storytellers, and advertising executive, who became an Executive Vice President of Reagan Communication, a firm that later went on to become one of the largest private companies in the world.
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