LOS ANGELES\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Michael Reagan, the elder son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was 80.<\/p>\n
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute announced his death in a post on the social platform X on Tuesday, calling him \u201ca steadfast guardian of his father\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael Reagan lived a life shaped by conviction, purpose, and an abiding devotion to President Reagan\u2019s ideals,\u201d the foundation said.<\/p>\n
His cause of death was not immediately announced.<\/p>\n
Reagan was a contributor to the conservative Newsmax television network and was known for his talk radio program, \u201cThe Michael Reagan Show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reagan was born to Irene Flaugher in 1945 and adopted just hours after his birth by Ronald Reagan and his then-wife, actor Jane Wyman. <\/p>\n
The young Reagan followed in his parents\u2019 footsteps.<\/p>\n
After attending Arizona State University and Los Angeles Valley College, Reagan took up acting, built his syndicated radio show and wrote several books, including two about his personal journey, titled \u201cOn the Outside Looking in\u201d and \u201cTwice Adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout his life, Reagan also focused his time on several charities, raising money in powerboat racing and serving as chair of the John Douglas French Alzheimer\u2019s Foundation board for three years.<\/p>\n
Ronald Reagan, who was known for trying to scale back government and devoting his presidency to winning the Cold War, died in 2004 after a long battle with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Michael Reagan pushed his father\u2019s ideas forward as chair of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.<\/p>\n
Michael Reagan\u2019s second marriage was to Colleen Stearns, with whom he had two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Michael Reagan, the elder son of President Ronald Reagan and a conservative commentator, has died. He was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64501,44662,37646,48025,339,4719,64500,6314,6386,48,52,51,1637,47,50,49,64498,4263,64499,64502,64253],"class_list":["post-123150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-actor-jane-wyman","tag-alzheimer","tag-chair","tag-conviction","tag-death","tag-disease","tag-eld-son","tag-father","tag-foundation","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-life","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-michael-reagan","tag-money","tag-president-ronald-reagan","tag-several-charity","tag-social-platform-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}