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Ronald Wilson Reagan (view source)
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He died at his Bel-Air home on June 5, 2004 at age 93, making him the second-longest lived president in history.
He died at his Bel-Air home on June 5, 2004 at age 93, making him the second-longest lived president in history.
==Legacy==
There is growing consensus among scholars, as both conservative admirers and liberal critics agree that he has been the most influential president since Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945. Reagan left a major imprint on American politics, diplomacy, culture, and economics.<ref>"As of this writing, among academic historians, the Reagan revisionists—who view the 1980s as an era of mixed blessings at worst, and of great forward strides in some renditions—hold the field," reports Doug Rossinow, "Talking Points Memo," in American Quarterly 59.4 (2007) p. 1279. For more historiographical support see: Troy (2009); Hayward (2009); Wilentz (2008); also Charles L. Ponce de Leon, "The New Historiography of the 1980s" in ''Reviews in American History,'' Volume 36, Number 2, June 2008, pp. 303-314; Whitney Strub, "Further into the Right: The Ever-Expanding Historiography of the U.S. New Right," ''Journal of Social History,'' Volume 42, Number 1, Fall 2008, pp. 183-194; Kim Phillips-Fein, "Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and Making of History," ''Enterprise & Society'', Volume 8, Number 4, December 2007, pp. 986-988. </ref>
==Family==
==Family==
Reagan married actress Jane Wyman, in 1940, and together they had three children: Maureen, Michael<ref>Michael Reagan is the adopted son of Wyman and Reagan. See conservapedia.com: "[[Michael Reagan]]"</ref> and Christine. She was born prematurely and died in infancy. Maureen has passed away from malignant [[melanoma]], at age 60. Michael is a conservative talk-radio host. Reagan's marriage to Wyman ended in divorce, in 1948. In 1952, he married Nancy Davis, his wife until his death. Together they had two children, Patti Davis and Ron, Jr.
Reagan married actress Jane Wyman, in 1940, and together they had three children: Maureen, Michael<ref>Michael Reagan is the adopted son of Wyman and Reagan. See conservapedia.com: "[[Michael Reagan]]"</ref> and Christine. She was born prematurely and died in infancy. Maureen has passed away from malignant [[melanoma]], at age 60. Michael is a conservative talk-radio host. Reagan's marriage to Wyman ended in divorce, in 1948. In 1952, he married Nancy Davis, his wife until his death. Together they had two children, Patti Davis and Ron, Jr.