United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (in case citation

Case citation

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s, E.D. Mich.) is the Federal district court

United States district court

The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...

with jurisdiction

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility...

over of the eastern portion of the state

U.S. state

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of Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. The Court is based in Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

, with courthouses also located in Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

, Bay City

Bay City, Michigan

Bay City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 34,932, and is the principal city of the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Saginaw-Bay City-Saginaw Township North...

, Flint

Flint, Michigan

Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...

, and Port Huron

Port Huron, Michigan

Port Huron is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of St. Clair County. The population was 30,184 at the 2010 census. The city is adjacent to Port Huron Township but is administratively autonomous. It is joined by the Blue Water Bridge over the St. Clair River to Sarnia,...

. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Kentucky* Western District of Kentucky...

has appellate jurisdiction over the court (except for patent

Patent

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claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act

Tucker Act

Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....

, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

History

The United States District Court for the District of Michigan was established on July 1, 1836, by 5 Stat. 61, with a single judgeship. The district court was not assigned to a judicial circuit, but was granted the same jurisdiction as United States circuit courts, except in appeals and writs of error, which were the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Due to the so-called "Toledo War

Toledo War

The Toledo War , also known as the Michigan-Ohio War, was the almost entirely bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan....

", a boundary dispute with Ohio

Ohio

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, Michigan did not become a state of the Union until January 26, 1837. On March 3, 1837, Congress

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

passed an act that repealed the circuit court jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the District of Michigan, assigned the District of Michigan to the Seventh Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts:* Central District of Illinois* Northern District of Illinois...

, and established a U.S. circuit court for the district, 5 Stat. 176.

On July 15, 1862, Congress reorganized the circuits and assigned Michigan to the Eighth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Arkansas* Western District of Arkansas...

by 12 Stat. 576, and on January 28, 1863, the Congress again reorganized Seventh and Eight Circuits and assigned Michigan to the Seventh Circuit, by 12 Stat. 637. On February 24, 1863, Congress divided the District of Michigan into the Eastern and the Western

United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan

The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan is the Federal district court with jurisdiction over of the western portion of the state of Michigan, including the entire Upper Peninsula....

Districts, with one judgeship authorized for each district, by 12 Stat. 660.

Ross Wilkins

Ross Wilkins

Ross Wilkins was an American politician and lawyer from Pennsylvania, who later served as a territorial and U.S...

, who had been the only district judge to serve the District of Michigan, was reassigned to the Eastern District.

Current judges

Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan:

As of January 1, 2009, a vacancy exists in the District due to the decision of Judge Bernard A. Friedman to assume senior status. On November 17, 2011, President Obama nominated Gershwin A. Drain
Gershwin A. Drain
Gershwin A. Drain is a judge on Michigan's Third Circuit Court and is currently a nominee for District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.-Biography:...

to the seat. His nomination is pending before the United States Senate
United States Senate
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.

As of May 25, 2010, a second vacancy exists in the District due to the decision of Judge Arthur Tarnow to assume senior status. No replacement nomination is pending at this time.

Former judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
Alexis Caswell Angell Alexis Caswell Angell Alexis Caswell Angell was a United States federal judge.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Angell received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1878 and read law in 1879, also receiving an LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1880...	William Howard Taft William Howard Taft William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...			–	resignation
Patricia Jean Ehrhardt Pernick Boyle Patricia Jean Ehrhardt Pernick Boyle Patricia Jean Ehrhardt Pernick Boyle is a former United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Boyle received a B.A. and J.D. from Wayne State University in 1963. She was a law clerk to Kenneth Davies, Esq., Detroit, Michigan from 1963 to 1964, and to the Thaddeus Machrowicz, U.S....	Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...			–	resignation
Henry Billings Brown Henry Billings Brown Henry Billings Brown was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 5, 1891, to May 28, 1906. He was the author of the opinion for the Court in Plessy v...	Ulysses Grant			–	reappointment
Robert Edward DeMascio Robert Edward DeMascio Robert Edward DeMascio was a United States federal judge.Born in Corapolis, Pennsylvania, DeMascio was in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. He received an LL.B. from Wayne State University Law School in 1951. He was in private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1951...	Richard Nixon Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...				death
John Feikens John Feikens John Feikens was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was the Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan . Feikens had the unusual honor of being nominated to the same district court by three presidents.Feikens was born in Clifton, New Jersey. He...	Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...				death
Ralph M. Freeman Ralph M. Freeman Ralph McKenzie Freeman was a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan....	Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Lawrence Gubow

Lawrence Gubow

Lawrence Gubow was a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Gubow received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1940 and was in the United States Army during World War II and its aftermath, from 1941 to 1948, achieving the rank of Captain. He received an LL.B. from the...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Ralph B. Guy, Jr.

Ralph B. Guy, Jr.

Ralph B. Guy, Jr. is a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Guy received an A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1951 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1953. He was in private practice in Dearborn, Michigan from 1954 to 1955...

||Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

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| Barbara Kloka Hackett

Barbara Kloka Hackett

Barbara Kloka Hackett is a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hackett received a Ph.B. from the University of Detroit in 1948 and a J.D. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1950. She was a staff lawyer for the Michigan-Wisconsin Pipeline Company from 1950 to 1951....

||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....

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| Frederick William Kaess

Frederick William Kaess

Frederick William Kaess was a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kaess received an LL.B. from Detroit College of Law in 1932. He was a Municipal judge, St. Clair Shores, Michigan from 1932 to 1933. He was an Attorney and claims manager, Michigan Mutual Liability Company from...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Damon Keith

Damon Keith

Damon Jerome Keith is a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.-Biography:Keith grew up in Detroit, where he graduated from Northwestern High School in 1939; Keith then moved on to West Virginia State College , Howard University School of Law , and Wayne State...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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| Paul V. Gadola

Paul V. Gadola

Paul V. Gadola is a retired United States federal judge.Born in Flint, Michigan, Gadola received an A.B. from Michigan State University in 1951 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1953. He was in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955...

||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....

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| Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy

Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy

Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy is a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.-Biography:Kennedy grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated at the top of her class from the University of Michigan Law School. After law school, she clerked for the chief judge of the U.S....

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| Arthur A. Koscinski

Arthur A. Koscinski

Arthur A. Koscinski was a United States federal judge.Born in Poznań, Poland, Koscinski emigrated to the United States and received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1910. He was in private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1910 to 1945...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

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| George La Plata||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....

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| Arthur F. Lederle

Arthur F. Lederle

Arthur F. Lederle was a United States federal judge.Born in Leland, Michigan, Lederle graduated from Eastern Michigan College in 1909, and received an LL.B. from Detroit College of Law in 1915, an LL.M. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1923, and an LL.D. from Wayne State University...

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

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| Theodore Levin

Theodore Levin

Theodore Levin was a was a prominent immigration lawyer and United States federal judge who served on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan from 1946 until his death in 1970....

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| John W. Longyear

John W. Longyear

John Wesley Longyear was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.Longyear was born in Shandaken, New York. He pursued classical studies in the Lima Academy of Lima, New York and taught school for several years. In 1844, he moved to Mason, Michigan where he taught school and...

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| Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

Thaddeus M. Machrowicz

Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.Machrowicz was born in Gostyń, Poland and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1902. They settled in Chicago, Illinois, but later moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended parochial school...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Wade Hampton McCree, Jr.||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Edward Julien Moinet

Edward Julien Moinet

Edward Julien Moinet was a United States federal judge.Born in Louisville, Ohio, Moinet received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1895. He was in private practice in Ithaca, Michigan from 1895 to 1899, and in St. Johns, Michigan from 1899 to 1913. He was a prosecuting attorney of St....

||Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| Ernest Aloysius O'Brien

Ernest Aloysius O'Brien

Ernest Aloysius O'Brien was a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, O'Brien received a B.A. from Detroit College in 1898 and an LL.B. from Detroit College of Law in 1905. He was in private practice in Detroit from 1906 to 1928...

||Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan

Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan

Clifford Patrick O'Sullivan was a United States federal judge.Born in Chicago, Illinois, O'Sullivan received an LL.B. from Notre Dame Law School in 1920...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| Frank Albert Picard

Frank Albert Picard

Frank Albert Picard was an American attorney, political figure, and federal judge from Michigan. He also played college football as a quarterback of the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1909 to 1911....

||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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| Philip Pratt

Philip Pratt

Philip Pratt was a United States federal judge.Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Pratt was in the United States Army Sergeant, Office of Strategic Service during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. He received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1950. He was a Title examiner, Abstract and...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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| Stephen John Roth

Stephen John Roth

Stephen John Roth was a United States federal judge.Roth received a Ph.B. from the University of Notre Dame in 1931, and an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1935. He was in private practice in Flint, Michigan, 1935–37, 1939–41, 1943, 1945-48 from 1950 to 52...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Charles Casper Simons

Charles Casper Simons

Charles Casper Simons was a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Simons received a B.L. from the University of Michigan in 1898 and an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1900. He was in private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1900 to 1923. He was a member of...

||Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

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| Talbot Smith

Talbot Smith

Talbot Smith was a United States federal judge.Born in Fayette, Missouri, Smith was a lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1931. He received a B.S. from United States Naval Academy in 1920, and an M.S. from Naval Academy Post-Graduate School in 1928...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| Richard Fred Suhrheinrich

Richard Fred Suhrheinrich

Richard Fred Suhrheinrich is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit serving in Lansing, Michigan.Born in Lincoln City, Indiana, Suhrheinrich earned his Bachelor of Science in 1960 from Wayne State University, his Juris Doctor with honors in 1963 from the Detroit...

||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....

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| Henry Harrison Swan

Henry Harrison Swan

Henry Harrison Swan was a United States federal judge.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Swan read law to enter the bar in 1867. He was in private practice in California in 1867, and in Detroit, Michigan from 1869 to 1870. He was an assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan...

||Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

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| Thomas Patrick Thornton

Thomas Patrick Thornton

Thomas Patrick Thornton was a United States federal judge.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Thornton received an LL.B. from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1926. He was in private practice in Detroit, Michigan from 1926 to 1937. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the Eastern...

||Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

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| Arthur J. Tuttle

Arthur J. Tuttle

Arthur J. Tuttle was a United States federal judge.Born in Leslie, Michigan, Tuttle received a Ph.B. from the University of Michigan in 1892 and an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1895. He was in private practice in Leslie, Michigan and Lansing, Michigan from 1895 to 1899...

||William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

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| Ross Wilkins

Ross Wilkins

Ross Wilkins was an American politician and lawyer from Pennsylvania, who later served as a territorial and U.S...

||Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

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| George E. Woods

George E. Woods

George E. Woods was a United States federal judge.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Woods was in the United States Army during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. He received a J.D. from Detroit College of Law in 1949. He was in private practice in Pontiac, Michigan from 1949 to 1951...

||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....

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