When he was Governor of California

Governor of California

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, future President

President of the United States

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 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

made use of an elaborate coat of arms supposedly traced from powerful Irish

Ireland

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 aristocrats. When he discovered he was not descended from this family, he hired Adolf F.J. Karlovský, an associate member of the Académie Internationale d'Héraldique

Académie Internationale d'Héraldique

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, to devise a new coat of arms. In 1984 the new arms were registered in the Solothurn

Solothurn

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 State Archives in Switzerland

Switzerland

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. They are blazon

Blazon

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ed as:

Or, a Bear rampant Sable armed and langued Gules holding between its forepaws a mullet Argent, on a chief Sable standing on a ducal coronet Or a Falcon Argent armed and langued Gules wings displayed and inverted.

The crest

Crest (heraldry)

A crest is a component of an heraldic display, so called because it stands on top of a helmet, as the crest of a jay stands on the bird's head....

 was blazoned On a tilting helm a Demi-Horse Sable unguled Or charged on the shoulder with an Actor’s Mask Or, a mantling Sable and Or issuant from the crest and being [words missing].

Thus there is no wreath or torse

Torse

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. Instead the mantle is a continuation of the crest, as if attached to (or even the hide of) the horse in the crest.

The Latin

Latin

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motto is Facta non Verba ("Deeds, not words").