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=Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) = 

He was born in Tampico, Illinois and he later moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in many movie productions and gaining enough success to become a household name. Reagan served as spokesman for General Electric where he first found love for politics. First a member of the Democratic Party, he switched to the Republican Party. After delivering an excellent speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he sought the California governorship, winning back to back terms. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination twice, but won the election in 1980. Reagan implemented new political and economic initiatives as president. His supply-side economic policies, called "Reaganomics," advocated reduced business regulation, controlling inflation, reducing growth in government spending, and spurring economic growth through tax cuts. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt. In his second term he observed the fall of the Soviet Union. Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier. He died ten years later at the age of 93.

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Obituary from the Washington Post