This week's famous cousin is my 8th cousin 1x removed Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004), the 40th President of the United States.
Here is Ronald Wilson Reagan's Family Search Family Tree short biography:
When President Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on 6 February 1911, in Tampico, Whiteside, Illinois, United States, his father, John Edward Reagan, was 27 and his mother, Nelle Clyde Wilson, was 27. He married Sarah Jane Mayfield on 26 January 1940, in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1974 and Los Angeles, California, United States in 1989. He registered for military service in 1937. In 1981, his occupation is listed as 40th president of the United States of America in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. He died on 5 June 2004, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Ventura, California, United States.
The Wikipedia profile for Ronald Wilson Reagan is here.
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. A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent American conservative figures.
Raised in northern Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a sports broadcaster on several regional radio stations. He moved to California in 1937 and became a well-known film actor there. Reagan twice served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 to 1960. During the 1950s, he worked in television and spoke for General Electric. In 1964, Reagan's speech "A Time for Choosing" elevated him as a new conservative figure. He was elected governor of California in 1966. During his governorship, he raised taxes, turned the state budget deficit into a surplus, and implemented harsh crackdowns on university protests. After challenging and losing to incumbent president Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican Party presidential primaries, Reagan won the Republican nomination and then a landslide victory over incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
In his first term, Reagan implemented "Reaganomics," which involved economic deregulation and cuts in both taxes and government spending during a period of stagflation. He escalated an arms race and transitioned Cold War policy away from the policies of détente with the Soviet Union. Reagan also ordered the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983. Additionally, he survived an assassination attempt, fought public-sector labor unions, expanded the war on drugs, and was slow to respond to the U.S. AIDS epidemic, which began early in his presidency. In the 1984 presidential election, he defeated Carter's vice president Walter Mondale in another landslide victory. Foreign affairs dominated Reagan's second term, including the 1986 bombing of Libya, the secret and illegal sale of arms to Iran to fund the Contras, and a more conciliatory approach in talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that culminated in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Here is the Relative Finder chart showing my relationship to Ronald Wilson Reagan:
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