Saturday, June 05, 2004
Ronald Reagan
Born: February 6, 1911
Died: June 5, 2004
Movie actor
First movie: "Love is in the air" - 1937
52 movie credits in his lifetime
Spokesman for the General Electric Company.
Hosted and acted on the General Electric Theater television series
Host of the television series, "Death Valley Days."
Five-time president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Democrat turned Conservative.
Governor of California 1966 - 1974
President of the United States 1981 - 1989
He was the oldest man elected president.
He was the first Hollywood actor to be elected president.
He was the first president whose daughter posed for Playboy.
He was the first president to have been divorced.
He appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court.
He was the eighth president to be the victim of an assassination.
He was the only president to survive a wound.
He was the major factor in ending the Cold War.
He was 77 years, 349 days old when he left office, Jan. 20, 1989.
Reagan is survived by his wife and three children
... and some 250 million Americans, who have lost a champion.
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