John Neil Reagan (September 16, 1908 – December 11, 1996) was an American radio station manager, CBS senior producer, and senior vice president of McCann Erickson. He was the elder brother of the Hollywood star and United States PresidentRonald Reagan.
Neil Reagan was born in Tampico on September 16, 1908.[3] He was baptized as a Catholic,[4] the faith of his father. As an infant, he attended his mother's church, but later became affiliated with his father's religion. His younger brother was baptized and raised in their mother's Disciples of Christ church.[5] Neil was described as a boisterous and gregarious personality in his youth.[6] His family and friends called him "Moon", which came from the Moon Mullins comic strip.[1][2]
He served as president of both the Hollywood and Los Angeles advertising clubs, and also served on numerous community and professional boards including: the Crippled Children's Society of Los Angeles, the Kennedy Child Study Center in Santa Monica, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. He was an alternate delegate to the 1972 Republican National Convention from California, and a delegate to the 1980 Republican National Convention. Neil Reagan served two terms as trustee of Eureka College.[citation needed]
The Reagan Physical Education Center on the Eureka College campus was dedicated in 1970 in honor of both Ronald and Neil Reagan. Twelve years later, Ronald Reagan would return to the Reagan Center to make one of his most important foreign policy speeches of his first term known as the START speech, or Eureka speech.[citation needed] Reagan died from heart failure at a hospital in San Diego on December 11, 1996, at age 88.[2] He is buried in Des Moines, Iowa, at Highland Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Family
His wife, Ruth Elizabeth "Bess" Reagan (née Hoffman;[3] 1908–2010), whom he wed in 1935, died in 2010 at the age of 102. The couple had no children.[citation needed]
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