At a glance
- Age
- 93
- Born
- February 6, 1911
- From
- Tampico
- Lives in
- Rancho del Cielo
- Nationality
- United States
Biography
The voice that reaches most people now is the presidential one — eight years of speeches from the White House, delivered between 1981 and 1989 by a man who had spent an earlier career in front of cameras. He was the 40th president of the United States, and clips of him talking still circulate widely.
Before politics, the work was acting: film and then television, a trade that involved learning to hold an audience with delivery and timing. Whatever he later said from a podium came from someone who had done that job first.
As a Republican, he became a central figure in American conservatism, and his years in office are referred to as the Reagan era — a label that says something about how firmly the period is associated with him personally rather than only with his party.
He was born Ronald Wilson Reagan in Tampico on 6 February 1911, and died on 5 June 2004.
Before politics, the work was acting: film and then television, a trade that involved learning to hold an audience with delivery and timing. Whatever he later said from a podium came from someone who had done that job first.
As a Republican, he became a central figure in American conservatism, and his years in office are referred to as the Reagan era — a label that says something about how firmly the period is associated with him personally rather than only with his party.
He was born Ronald Wilson Reagan in Tampico on 6 February 1911, and died on 5 June 2004.
