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).