Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois. His birthday was on February 6, 1911. He died at the age of 93, on June 5, 2004. He died from Alzheimer's disease. He had a nickname that was given to him by his father, Dutch, it was given to him at a very young age. The names Ron and Ronnie were also his nicknames, but Dutch was used the most. He was raised in a poor family and he graduated from Eureka College in 1932. Reagan was also called "The Gipper" due to a movie role. He was originally an actor and he played roles in a lot of movies and tv shows. He had great skill in making speeches that he was called "The Great Communicator". Ronald had two wives during his life. The first one was Jane Wyman and the second one was Nancy Reagan. He had five children. There were three girls and two boys.
Ronald Reagan was the Vice President of George H. W. Bush before he became president. The years 1981-1989, Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and before being president, he was the Governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
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He had many economic plans. He advocated a laissez-faire philosophy that looked to help the economy with large, across the board tax cuts. Reagan wanted success. He tried every way to have success. Ronald was seeking to improve in certain economic ways as evidence in success. When Ronald lowered tax rates the economic growth would occur. It led to the increasing of economic growth and higher employment and wages. Reagan did not like the idea of raising the income taxes. During Reagan's presidency, the top federal income tax rates were lowered from 70 percent to 28 percent. The people loved him being president because of all the help he gave. Reagan had as he called the "great disappointment" of his presidency to be the new debt. The new debt raised the national debt from $1.1 trillion to $2.7