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[h3]Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in 1911, in a flat above a bank, to parents Nelle and John Reagan in Illinois. [/h3]

He studied economics and sociology at Eureka University and was an active member of the university, even causing his fellow students to strike, after the teachers were reduced during the great depression.

It was during his final years at Eureka college that Reagan finally decided he wanted to be an actor. After school, he got a job as a sports radio announcer and then, after a screen test in 1937, he won a Hollywood film contract.

20 years and 53 films later, he was president of the screen actors guild and arguing about communism in the film industry. This led him further into the political field, moving around the country and speaking publicly about conservatism.

In 1938, Reagan co-starred in the film Brother Rat with actress Jane Wyman. They were married two years later and had two children, Maureen and Christine, and adopted a third, Michael. Reagan and Wyman divorced in 1948 following arguments about Reagan's political ambitions, making him the only U.S. president to have been divorced.

The future president met actress Nancy Davis in 1949 after Davis contacted then-president of the Screen Actors Guild Reagan to help her with issues regarding her name appearing on a communist blacklist in Hollywood. After hitting it off almost immediately, the couple eventually married in March, 1952. The couple had two children: Patti and Ron.

Reagan was elected as the Governer of California, winning by a staggering one million votes in 1966, and was re-elected in 1970. In 1980, he won a Republican Presidential nomination, running with [urlnew=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_home/247:0/George_Bush_Senior_.htm]George Bush[/urlnew] in his team. He beat Presidential nominee Jimmy Carter by 489 votes to 49.

On the 20th January 1981, Reagan took office. He hit the ground running and targeted all the areas of American life that needed his attention urgently. He obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, increase employment, increase the national defence budget and curb inflation.

Barely three months into office and Reagan's life was in jeopardy – a would-be assassin shot at him, but the grace and good humour that Reagan took this in, only strengthened his public position. The American peoples' confidence in Reagan grew and, in 1984, he won a second term in office.
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In 1986, Reagan focused on the tax system and gave this another overhaul, by taking away unnecessary deductions from the pay packet, and exempting those with low wages from paying out large sums through their pay.

The American people had seen a dramatic and positive change in their lives while Reagan was in office and his foreign policy sought to achieve “peace through strength”, improving relations with the Soviet Union and, most significantly, he declared war against terrorism, targeting those who he believed to be against the USA.

During the Iran-Iraq war, he positioned his Navy in the Persian Gulf to ensure the free flow of oil to the States and, as promised, he supported countries fighting communism.

In 1989, Reagan stepped down from office and George Bush Senior was the man he chose to take the party forward, beating Jimmy Carter, and gaining another Presidential win for the Republican Party.

On 5th June 2004 he passed away in Los Angeles, aged 93, after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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- Before he was born his parents had decided to call him Donald but his mother's sister beat her to it and so his cousin was called by that name.

- His father called him ‘the Dutchman’ or ‘Dutch’ after quipping when he was born that "He looks like a fat little Dutchman. But who knows, he might grow up to be president some day."

- He has two brothers and a sister: Jack, Nelle and Neil.

- His ancestors on his father's side had gone to America after the potato famine in Ireland.

- During a four year period he attended four different schools, because his father would travel frequently searching for a ‘better life.’

- Reagan believed he had trouble making close friends as a child because he moved so often.

- His first experience of being on the stage and ‘acting’ was after memorising a short piece his mother had given him to read at a show of the local drama group of which his mother was a member.

- He was elected captain of the football team at Dixon high school, after having been turned down for the team the year before.

- In order to bulk up for the football team trials, Reagan got a job earning 35 cents an hour helping to build new homes.

- He worked for seven school summer breaks as a lifeguard, something he recounts as one of his best jobs ever.

- His first marriage was to actress Jane Wyman (1940 to 1948), with whom he had two children, Maureen (who died in 2001) and Michael.

- His second marriage to Nancy Davis, also an actress, was in 1952 they also had two children together, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott.

- He was the 40th President of the United States of America.

- His daughter Maureen died of skin cancer in 2001 but, because his Alzheimers was so advanced, he wasn’t aware of her death.

- John W. Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate him in 1981.
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Killers, The (1964)

Young Doctors, The (1961)

Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

Tennessee's Partner (1955)

Cattle Queen of Montana (1955)

Jungle Trap, The (1954)

Prisoner of War (1954)

Tropic Zone (1953)

Law and Order (1953)

She's Working Her Way Through College (1952)

Winning Team, The (1952)

Hong Kong (1952)

Big Truth, The (1951)

Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)

Last Outpost, The (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)

Louisa (1950)

Hasty Heart, The (1949)

Girl from Jones Beach, The (1949)

Night Unto Night (1949)

John Loves Mary (1949)

That Hagen Girl (1947)

Stallion Road (1947)

Cadet Classification (1943)

For God and Country (1943)

This Is the Army (1943)

Desperate Journey (1942)

Juke Girl (1942)

Kings Row (1942)

Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)

International Squadron (1941)

Million Dollar Baby (1941)

Bad Man, The (1941)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Knute Rockne All American (1940)

Murder in the Air (1940)

Angel from Texas, An (1940)

Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)

Smashing the Money Ring (1939)

Angels Wash Their Faces, The (1939)

Hell's Kitchen (1939)

Naughty But Nice (1939)

Code of the Secret Service (1939)

Dark Victory (1939)

Secret Service of the Air (1939)

Going Places (1938)

Brother Rat (1938)

Girls on Probation (1938)

Boy Meets Girl (1938)

Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, The (1938)

Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)

Accidents Will Happen (1938)

Hollywood Hotel (1938)

Swing Your Lady (1938)

Submarine D-1 (1937)

Sergeant Murphy (1937)

Love Is on the Air (1937)
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