Laura Ingraham

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Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham signs her new book, Power to the People at the Lawrence, NY, Costco
Born	June 19, 1964 (1964-06-19) (age 45) Glastonbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Residence	Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Education	AB, JD
Occupation	broadcaster
Religious beliefs	Roman Catholic
Website http://www.lauraingraham.com/

Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1964) is an American radio host, author, and political commentator. Her nationally-syndicated talk show, The Laura Ingraham Show, airs throughout the United States on Talk Radio Network. The Laura Ingraham Show is ranked eighth among most-listened-to radio programs, with an average 5.5 million weekly listeners.^[1]

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Radio show host 1.2 Books 2 Personal 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Career

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. 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.^[2]

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 stints as a cable television host. In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted the MSNBC program Watch It! 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 three-week trial run for 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) and the show ended its short run without being renewed.

She appeared on a 1995 cover of The New York Times Magazine for an article about rising young conservatives.

Ingraham is the author of three books.

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."^[3] She anchored a three-week show, in June 2008, called, Just In with Laura Ingraham.^[4][5]

As of 2008, Laura Ingraham is rated as the No. 6 radio show host in America, by Talkers Magazine. She was as high as No. 5, in the past, according to the same publication.^[6]

Ingraham is represented by the Executive Speakers Bureau, of Memphis, Tennessee, and receives between $20,000-30,000 per appearance.^[7]

Books

• The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places, published December 25, 2005, while the author was a talk show host on MSNBC. The book 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. The book discusses conservative values concerning family life, education and patriotism.^[8]

Personal

Ingraham once was engaged to conservative author and fellow Dartmouth alumnus Dinesh D'Souza and has dated former New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli,^[9] as well as briefly dating MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.^[10]

In April 2005, she announced that she was engaged to businessman James V. Reyes, with a wedding planned 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 maintained that the two remain good friends and had told listeners, in 2006, that she was in good health.^[11]

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.^[12]

See also

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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Laura Ingraham

• Laura Ingraham Official Web Site
• Laura Ingraham at NNDB
• Photos of Ingraham in Iraq, February 2006, at LauraIngraham.com