Laura Ingraham

Laura Ingraham

Ingraham at CPAC, February 2015
Born Laura Anne Ingraham
(1963-06-19) June 19, 1963
Glastonbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater Dartmouth College (BA)
University of Virginia (JD)
Political party Republican
Children 3 (adopted)
Website Official website

Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1963) is an American radio talk show host, author, and conservative political commentator.[1] Her nationally syndicated talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States on Courtside Entertainment. Ingraham is also the official guest host on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and a contributor on This Week on ABC.

Ingraham is under consideration by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as his White House Press Secretary.[2]

Early life and career

Ingraham grew up in a middle-class family in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where she was born to Anne Caroline (née Kozak) and James Frederick Ingraham III.[3] Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants, while her paternal grandfather was of English and her paternal grandmother was of Irish ancestry.[4] She was graduated from Glastonbury High School in 1981.

Ingraham earned a B.A. degree at Dartmouth College in 1985 and a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991. As a Dartmouth undergraduate, she was a staff member of the independent conservative newspaper, The Dartmouth Review. In her senior year, she was the newspaper's editor-in-chief,[5] its first female editor. She wrote several controversial articles during her tenure, notably an article alleging racist and unprofessional behavior by Dartmouth music professor Bill Cole, who later sued Ingraham for $2.4 million. The college paid his legal costs. The suit was settled in 1985.[6] Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable", claiming "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual."[7] In 1997, she wrote an essay in the Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with AIDS. Ingraham has stated that she supports civil unions, but still believes that marriage "is between a man and a woman."[8]

In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Ronald Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy Advisor.[9] She also briefly served as editor of The Prospect, the magazine issued by Concerned Alumni of Princeton. After law school, in 1991, she served as a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York and subsequently clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She then worked as an attorney at the New York-based law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.[10] In 1995, she appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in a leopard-print miniskirt in connection with a story about young conservatives.[11]

In 1996, she and Jay P. Lefkowitz organized the first Dark Ages Weekend in response to Renaissance Weekend.[12]

Ingraham has had two stints as a cable television host. In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted the MSNBC program Watch It!.[13] Several years later, Ingraham began campaigning for another cable television show on her radio program. She finally got her wish in 2008, when Fox News Channel gave her a three-week trial run for a new show entitled Just In.[14][15]

Her most recent book, Of Thee I Zing, was released in July 2011. In August 2013, conservative Newsmax magazine named Ingraham among the "25 most influential women in the GOP."[16]

Radio show host

Ingraham at Conservative Political Action Conference, 2012

Ingraham launched The Laura Ingraham Show in April 2001, which is heard on 306 stations and on XM Satellite Radio. It was originally syndicated by Westwood One, but moved to Talk Radio Network in 2004. Ingraham is also the official guest host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel and a weekly contributor with her segment, "The Ingraham Angle."

In 2012, Ingraham was rated as the No. 5 radio show in America, by Talkers Magazine.[17] In November 2012, she announced her departure from Talk Radio Network, declining to renew her contract with TRN after nearly a decade of being associated with the network. She said, in jest, that she had decided to "pursue my first loves – modern dance and the xylophone."[18] She was the second major host from TRN's lineup to leave the network that year: TRN's other major program, The Savage Nation, left TRN two months earlier. Her new program, syndicated by Courtside Entertainment Group, began on January 2, 2013.[19]

Books

Personal life

She has dated broadcaster Keith Olbermann [30] and former New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli.[31] In April 2005, she announced her engagement to businessman James V. Reyes, and that she had undergone breast cancer surgery. In May 2005, Ingraham told listeners that her engagement to Reyes was canceled, citing issues regarding her diagnosis with breast cancer. Despite the breakup, she maintained that they remain good friends and told listeners she was in good health.[32]

She is a convert to Roman Catholicism.[33]

In May 2008, Ingraham adopted a young girl from Guatemala, whom she has named Maria Caroline.[34] In July 2009 she adopted a 13-month-old boy, Michael Dmitri, and two years later in June 2011 she announced the adoption of her third child, 13-month-old Nikolai Peter. Both of the boys were from Russia, a nation where Ingraham has spent considerable time.[35]

References

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  2. ↑ "Laura Ingraham considered for White House press secretary post".
  3. ↑ "James Ingraham Obituary - Glastonbury, CT | Hartford Courant". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  4. ↑ "Anne Ingraham, 79 - tribunedigital-thecourant". Articles.courant.com. 1999-05-31. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  5. ↑ Shapiro, Gary (2006-04-28). "Dartmouth Review Celebrates 25 Years". The New York Sun. Retrieved 2008-06-24. "The Review made me who I am", the radio host and former editor-in-chief of the Review, Laura Ingraham '85, said.
  6. ↑ James Panero and Stefan Beck (eds), The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent, pp. 43-58
  7. ↑ Carlson, Margaret (April 21, 1997). "Only In My Backyard". CNN.
  8. ↑ "Civil Unions Vs Marriage: Laura Ingraham Weighs In". Larry King Now. May 24, 2013. Ora TV.
  9. ↑ Longman, Phillip (1988-02-14). "Reagan's Disappearing Bureaucrats". NYTimes.com. United States. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  10. ↑ Kurtz, Howard (August 30, 2004). "Laura Ingraham, Reporting for W2004". The Washington Post. p. C01.
  11. ↑ "Laura Ingraham: Right-Wing Radio's High Priestess of Hate". Huffington Post. June 9, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Republican, Connected and Rising". National Law Journal. ALM Properties, Inc. March 11, 1996. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  13. ↑ "Ingraham, Laura". Greatamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  14. ↑ Great News on the Laura Ingraham Front by Michael Gaynor, theconservativevoice.com; accessed April 28, 2014.
  15. ↑
  16. ↑ Meyers, Jim. "Newsmax Exclusive: The 25 Influential Women of the GOP". Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  17. ↑ Profile, Talkers.com; accessed April 28, 2104.
  18. ↑ "LAURA INGRAHAM OFF AIR TO 'RETOOL' PROGRAM".
  19. ↑ "Laura Ingraham Returns To Radio January 2". Huffingtonpost.com. 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  20. ↑ Mary McGrory, "The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places," Washington Monthly, Vol. 32, No. 6 (June 2000), p. 51.
  21. ↑ Cynthia Harrison, "The Hillary Trap: Women Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places," Library Journal, Vol. 125 No. 12 (July 2000), p. 119.
  22. ↑ Kathryn Jean Lopez, "Books in Brief", National Review, Vol. 55, No. 21 (November 10, 2003), p. 51.
  23. ↑ Arave, Lynn (October 12, 2007). "Author brings 'Power' to Utah". Deseret News. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  24. ↑ "New York Times Best Seller List". Clapp Library. September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
  25. ↑ "Radio's 'Power' broker". Washington Times. 2007-09-13. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  26. ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (August 1, 2010). "Hardcover Nonfiction". The New York Times.
  27. ↑ "Laura Ingraham takes aim in 'The Obama Diaries'". MSNBC News. Retrieved 13 July 2010.
  28. ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (July 31, 2011). "Hardcover Nonfiction". The New York Times.
  29. ↑ "Laura Ingraham's Of Thee I Zing". Daily Caller. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  30. ↑ Borowitz, Andy (2008-06-23). "One Angry Man". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  31. ↑ Laura Ingraham profile, NNDb.com; accessed April 28, 2014.]
  32. ↑ "Laura Ingraham Recovering from Cancer Surgery", Outsidethebeltway.com (April 2005); accessed April 28, 2014.
  33. ↑ Ingraham, Laura (2007). Power to the People. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59698-516-2. OCLC 152580809., pp. 307-9.
  34. ↑ "Laura Ingraham - Interview". National Review. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
  35. ↑ "Love, Etc". The Washington Post. 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
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