Nancy Davis Reagan
By Klaire Ladehoff Nancy Reagan was born in New York City on July 6, 1921. Nancy’s name isn’t even Nancy at all, it’s Anne Frances Robbins. She was the only child of Kenneth Robbins and Edith Luckett Robins. Kenneth was a salesman and Edith was an actress. Kenneth left the marriage while Anne was still an infant. Since Kenneth left, Edith sent Anne to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith in Bethesda, Maryland. Edith sent Anne to them because she wanted to fulfill her acting career. Anne attended Sidwell Friends School. Anne and Virginia went to New York whenever Edith was there for theater runs. Early on in her life, she got the nickname “Nancy”. She, clearly, used that as her real name. Edith married a man named Loyal Davis. Loyal adopted Nancy and treated her as his own. She went back and lived with her mother and stepfather. In the household, she was surrounded with wealth. Loyal was a neurosurgeon in Chicago. Edith and Loyal brought in a lot of money to Nancy’s world. Since Nancy moved in with Edith and Loyal, she attended the Girls’ Latin School.
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Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City. She was raised by both of her parents until her father, Elliott Roosevelt, entered a
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