Laura Ingraham

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name = Laura Ingraham

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Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1964) is an American radio host, author, and conservative political commentator. Her nationally-syndicated talk show, "The Laura Ingraham Show", airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network. According to Talkers' Magazine, "The Laura Ingraham Show" is tied for fifth among most-listened to talk shows, with an average 5.5 million weekly listeners. [http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=34]

Career

As an undergraduate, she was a staff member of "The Dartmouth Review". In her senior year she was its editor-in-chief. [cite news
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quote="The Review made me who I am," the radio host and former editor-in-chief of the Review, Laura Ingraham '85, said.]

In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Ronald Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy advisor. She also briefly served as editor of "The Prospect", the magazine issued by Concerned Alumni of Princeton. After receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law 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 a private defense attorney at the New York-based law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Ingraham has had two unsuccessful stints as a cable television host. In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted the MSNBC program "Watch It!", which she jokingly says should have been called "Watch It Get Canceled!" Several years later, Ingraham began openly campaigning for another cable television show on her radio program. She finally got her wish in 2008, when Fox News Channel gave her a new show entitled "Just In". During the show, there was an off-camera fight with producers (which was caught on tape and posted to the Web by Harry Shearer). However, Fox News has indicated that the show was intended to have a limited run.

She appeared on a 1995 cover of "The New York Times Magazine" in a leopardskin miniskirt — which, she joked, is displayed in the Smithsonian — for an article about rising young conservatives.

She is the author of three books.

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U.S. Navy at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia.]

Radio show host

Ingraham launched "The Laura Ingraham Show" in April 2001, which is heard on 306 stations and on XM Satellite Radio. The show was originally syndicated by Infinity's (now CBS') Westwood One, but is now syndicated by Talk Radio Network. 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." [ [http://paxalles.blogs.com/paxalles/2008/04/ingraham-angle.html PAXALLES: "Ingraham Angle": Non-"Stop Loss" Hollywood Iraq Movies And Clinton Campaign ] ] Laura anchored a three week show in June 2008 called "Just In with Laura Ingraham". [ [http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/32746.html Great News on the Laura Ingraham Front by Michael Gaynor ] ] [ [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/americas_election_hq_returns_monday_88514.asp America's Election HQ Returns Monday - mediabistro.com: TVNewser ] ]

As of 2008, Laura Ingraham is rated as the number six radio show host in America by "Talkers Magazine". She was as high as number five in the past according to the same publication. [ [http://www.talkers.com/heavy.html Talkers Magazine Online ] ]

Ingraham is represented by the Executive Speakers Bureau of Memphis, Tennessee, and receives between $20,000-30,000 per appearance. [ [http://executivespeakers.com/speakers/listings/l0488.shtml Laura Ingraham] Executive Speaker's Bureau]

Books

*"The Hillary Tr
December 25, 2005, while the author was a talk show host on MSNBC. It presents Hillary Clinton as an example of the 'traps' women can encounter.

*"Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the U.N. are Subverting America" published October 25, 2003. It decries liberal activists working primarily in entertainment, academia, and the media.

*"Power to the People," published September 11, 2007, focuses on what Ingraham calls the "pornification" of America, and stresses the importance of getting involved in the culture. It discusses conservative values concerning family life, education and patriotism. [cite news
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Personal

Ingraham grew up in a middle-class family in Glastonbury, Connecticut and graduated from Glastonbury High School in 1981.

Ingraham earned a bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College in 1985 and a law degree at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991.

Ingraham once was engaged to conservative author and fellow Dartmouth alumnus Dinesh D'Souza and has dated former New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli [ [http://www.nndb.com/people/002/000055834 Laura Ingraham ] ] as well as MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. [ [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_boyer?printable=true The Political Scene: One Angry Man: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker ] ]

In April 2005, she announced that she was engaged to businessman James V. Reyes, with a planned wedding in May or June 2005. On April 26 2005, she announced that she had undergone breast cancer surgery. On May 11, 2005, Ingraham told listeners that her engagement to Reyes was canceled, citing issues regarding her diagnosis with breast cancer. Despite the breakup, she maintains that the two remain good friends, and has told listeners in 2006 that she is currently in good health. [ [http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/04/laura_ingraham_recovering_from_cancer_surgery/ Laura Ingraham Recovering from Cancer Surgery ] ]

She is a convert to Roman Catholicism. In May 2008, Ingraham began proceedings to adopt a young girl from Guatemala, whom she has named Maria Caroline. [ [http://www.usmagazine.com/laura-ingraham-adopts-girl-from-guatemala Usmagazine.com | Radio Host Laura Ingraham Adopts Girl From Guatemala ] ]

See also

*List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.lauraingraham.com/ Laura Ingraham Official Web Site]
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/002/000055834/ Laura Ingraham at NNDB]
* [http://www.lauraingraham.com/freephotos?action=viewPhotoSet&photoSetID=39 Photos of Ingraham in Iraq, February 2006, at LauraIngraham.com]