The most unusual thing about Reagan was the he starred in some 50 movies and was a television personality before he entered politics.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
40. Ronald Reagan
Yes. The 40th President of the United States was Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989
Reagan was number 40.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) was the 40th US President, serving from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989. Reagan was the oldest individual ever to become President, being 69 years old at his first inauguration and 73 at his second. When he left office, he was 2 weeks from his 78th birthday.
Jimmy Carter was the 39 president from 1977 to 1981, not the 40. The 40 president of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was well-known as a movie and TV actor before he entered politics. He starred in over 40 movies, mostly of the "B" variety.
His lifelong nickname was "Dutch", but as US President he was known as "The Great Communicator""Dutch"...and while President, "The Great Communicator"Ronald ReAgan was know to many as The Great Communicator.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential library is located in Simi Valley California, Ventura county. It is not far from Beverly Hills in LA.
Ronald Reagan was most famous for being the 40th President of United States, he was President from 1981-1989. Also he was the 33rd Governor of California, he was Governor from 1967-1975. Before he entered politics, he was well-known as movie actor, starring in some 40 B-pictures and later appeared on TV both as an actor and as the host of a Western show.
Ronald Reagan started eating jelly beans when he gave up smoking in the early 1960's. On his first day as governor of California, candymaker Henry Rowland gave Reagan a big jar of jelly beans, which Reagan put on the Cabinet Room table. That was the beginning of a long tradition of passing out jelly beans during Cabinet meetings. "We can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around the jar of jelly beans," he told Rowland. Reagan also once said that, "You can tell a lot about a fella's character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful." Sometime later he remarked, "Some political figures have endured in history as lions or conquerors or something equally impressive. It's a little frightening to think California history might record us as jelly beans." When Reagan was elected President in 1980, Henry Rowland told reporters, "There will be jelly beans in the White House, that's all I can say." True to form, Reagan kept a crystal jar full of his favorite jelly beans (Jelly Belly's) for Cabinet meetings and encouraged his department chiefs to eat them when they needed energy. Guests at Reagans 1980 inaugural parties consumed 40 million jelly beans --- almost equalling the number of votes he received in the election. Here is an interesting link that discusses Reagan's interest in Jelly beans: associatedcontent.com/article/194607/jelly_beans_a_colorful_history_and.html?cat=74
Three Presidents are affiliated with California, but none were born there, Herbert Hoover (#31) born in Iowa , Richard Nixon (37) Born in New York , Ronald Reagan (#40) born in Illinois.