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Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement.
Ronald Reagan was born on this day in 1911. ... a history professor at Ohio University with a book in the works on Reagan’s presidency. ... The former president died on June 5, 2004, at 93 years ...
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10] Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once. [11]
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.
“The choices we make will impact California and the country for easily the next 10 to 20 years,” Spencer wrote prophetically in a 1997 open letter to GOP leaders.
The 41st president of the United States, former director of the CIA, and vice president for eight years under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush died in 2018 at the age of 94. Related: 21 Crazy Facts ...
June 29 – President Reagan signs a 25-year expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act during an East Room ceremony. [237] September 3 – President Reagan signs the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. October 13 – President Reagan signs the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982.