Laura Ingraham
| Laura Ingraham | |
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Ingraham at CPAC, February 2015
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| Born |
Laura Anne Ingraham 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. 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. She is also the editor-in-chief of LifeZette.
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. Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants, while her paternal grandfather was of English and her paternal grandmother was of Irish ancestry. 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, 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.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." 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."
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