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Ronald Reagan Facts
| Sign | Aquarius |
| Born |
Feb 6, 1911 Tampico, IL |
| Died |
Jun 5, 2004 Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA |
| Age | Died at 93 |
| Total Facts | 82 |
On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, during his second term as governor of the Golden State, expunged the criminal record of Merle Haggard, granting him a full pardon.
Only United States President to have appeared in a shirt advertisement.
Only US President to head a labor union (as president of the Screen Actors Guild 1947-52/1959-60).
Originally was a very liberal member of the Democratic Party, but eventually converted to the Republican Party in 1962, when he was fifty-one. He gave a highly acclaimed speech in support of Barry Goldwater during the 1964 Presidential election.
Pictured on a 60¢ memorial postage stamp issued by the Republic of the Marshall Islands 4 July, 2004, the first memorial to be issued in his honor.
Pictured on a nondenominated 'forever' USA commemorative postage stamp issued 10 February 2011, four days after the 100th anniversary of his birth. The original issue price was 44¢.
Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp issued 9 February 2005. When the first-class letter rate was raised to 39¢ in January 2006, the US Postal Service received an unprecedented number of requests to reissue the stamp at the higher value. The 39¢ postage stamp was issued on 14 June 2006, using the same design as the earlier stamp.
President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and 1959-1960.
Reagan and his wife Nancy were close friends of Rock Hudson, whose death in 1985 spurred the President to provide funds for AIDS research.
Reagan was the first "true blue" conservative to win the Republican nomination and be elected President since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.
Received more electoral votes than any other president in history, winning by 525 (out of 538) in his 1984 re-election campaign when he racked up 49 of 50 states in beating Jimmy Carter's vice president Walter Mondale.
Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman had a daughter Christine who was born June 26, 1947 and lived 9 hours.
Rumored studio publicity claimed that he was scheduled to play Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942); however, this was never the case.
Son of John Edward Reagan and Nelle Clyde Wilson Reagan.
Spent World War II making Army training films for Hal Roach Studios.
The first President since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms in office.
The first US President since John F. Kennedy to die before his predecessor.
The former President was buried at his presidential library in Simi Valley, California.
The oldest man to serve as US President, being 69 when he was elected in 1980 and 77 when he left office in 1989.
The only US President to get a divorce.
To date (2009), first (and only) divorced US President (from Jane Wyman in 1948).
Underwent hip replacement surgery in January 2001.
Was a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa, before becoming an actor in 1937.
Was considered to be the most conservative United States President since Herbert Hoover.
Was portrayed on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) by at least eight different actors: Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, Charles Rocket, Harry Shearer, Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, Phil Hartman, and Kevin Nealon.
Was presented with George Gipp's letterman's sweater by the University of Notre Dame football team on January 18, 1989, two days before leaving the White House, and his two-term Vice President, George Herbert Walker Bush, became President.
Was the first guest of honor on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, in 1973.
When he was a young man, he had a part-time job as a lifeguard. He once had to retrieve an old man's dentures at the bottom of the pool and did so without hesitating.
When Reagan's long-time friend and first Hollywood agent, studio mogul Lew Wasserman, died on 3 June 2002, AP reported that their friendship was the subject of a controversial book called "Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob" (1988). The book reviewed the federal investgation into the Reagan- Wasserman relationship and charges that alleged payoffs were made in the 1950s by Wasserman's mammoth MCA agency to Reagan and some of his fellow officers of the Screen Actors Guild. Ultimately, Reagan was cleared in the inquiry.
While as an actor he is thought of mostly as a Western/Action-Adventure star, his two best-remembered lines were from straight dramatic roles and delivered while he was flat on his back in bed, his character either dying or horribly crippled: "Win just one more for the Gipper!" in Knute Rockne All American (1940) and "Where's the rest of me?" in Kings Row (1942).
While President of the USA, his Secret Service codename was "Rawhide".
Younger brother of Neil Reagan (1908-1996).