Life of Ronald Reagan

Life of Ronald Reagan

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On February 6, 1911 in Tampico Illinois Ronald Wilson Reagan was born. His mother Nelle and father John Edward Reagan had a son before Ronald Neil Reagan. In 1920 Ronald’s family moved to Dixon which Ronald feels is his hometown. In 1928 Regan graduated from Dixon High School. Well attending school Reagan was a student body president and also participated in the school plays, football, basketball and track. After high school Ronald went to Eureka College which was a liberal arts school from 1928 to 1932. At college he severed as student body president. At first he majored in sociology and economics, but during his second year at the school he became more interested in drama. In 1932 Ronald got a job working with a small radio station in Davenport, Iowa called WOC. A short time after getting this job the radio company joined another radio station called WHO in Des Moines. The station mainly talked about the Chicago Cubs baseball games and they were joined with NBC which gave Ronald Reagan his national media exposure. After working with the radio station in 1937 Reagan went to serve in the Army as a Private but was later pushed up to the 2nd Lieutenant. After meeting some one who worked for Warner Brothers in Los Angeles Regan got a seven year contract and played George Gipp in the film Knute Rockne in 1940. On January 24, 1940 Reagan married his first wife Jane Wyman who he meet while filming the movie “Brother Rat”. Almost a year after their wedding on January 4, 1941 Maureen Reagan was born. In 1942 the Army Air Force sent Lieutenant Reagan to Culver City, California where he make over four hundred training films in the 1st motion Picture Unit. The following year Reagan was promoted to the Captain in 1943 but two years later in 1945 he was discharged. After returning home from the war Reagan returned to his acting career. Regan made fifty there motion pictures as well as one movie for television. On March 18, 1945 Jane and Ronald had a son they named Michael....

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