Nancy Reagan Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Early life and education == [[File:Formal Photograph of Nancy Davis and Edith Davis.jpg|thumb|Young Reagan with her mother, actress [[Edith Luckett]].<!--The date provided by the National Archives Catalog is January 1931, but this is obviously wrong. Mrs. Reagan was born in July 1921 and would have been 9Β½ years old at that time.-->]] Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at [[Sloane Hospital for Women]] in Uptown Manhattan.<ref name="Percha">{{cite news| url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nancy-reagan-lady-dies-94/story?id=3349362|title=Nancy Reagan, Former First Lady, Dies at 94| last=Percha|first=Julie|publisher=[[ABC News]]|access-date=March 6, 2016|date=March 6, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Nancy Reagan: Her Life & Times" /><ref>When Nancy Davis signed with MGM, she gave her birth date as July 6, 1923, shaving two years off her age, a common practice in Hollywood (see Cannon, ''Governor Reagan'', p. 75). This caused subsequent confusion as some sources would continue to use the incorrect birth year.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Powling|first1=Anne|last2=O'Connor|first2=John|last3=Barton|first3=Geoff|title=New Oxford English|year=1997|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-831192-8|page=79}}</ref><ref>Some sources and websites erroneously list her as either being born in Flushing or being raised in Manhattan.</ref> Davis gave her birth date as July 6, 1923, a date cited through most of her life. She was of English descent. She was the only child of Kenneth Seymour Robbins (1892β1972), a farmer<ref>National Archives, "World War I draft registration cards", digital image, ''Ancestry.com'', "Kenneth Seymour Robbins, 23, b. Feb 23, 1892, Pittsfield, Mass, farmer, owner, Brainard, NY, married. Registered June 5, 1916." Retrieved October 8, 2016.</ref> turned car salesman who had been born into a once-well-to-do family,<ref name="Percha" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sackettfamily.info/g128/p128863.htm|access-date=March 6, 2016|work=Sakkett Family|title=The Sackett Family Association}}</ref><ref>Reagan, Nancy (1989), p. 66.</ref> and his actress wife, [[Edith Luckett Davis|Edith Prescott Luckett]] (1888β1987).<ref>Luckett gave her year of birth as 1896 to the Social Security Administration, thus shaving off eight years.</ref><ref name="nfll">{{cite web|url=http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=41|title=First Lady Biography: Nancy Reagan|access-date=March 6, 2016|publisher=National First Ladies Library|archive-date=May 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509085730/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=41|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Luckett-IMDB">[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524717/ Edith Luckett] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]. {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}</ref><ref name="IBDB Luckett">[http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=50307 Edith Luckett] at the [[Internet Broadway Database]].</ref><ref name="First Lady Nancy Reagan" /> Her godmother was silent-film-star [[Alla Nazimova]].<ref>Wills (1987), p. 182.</ref> From birth, she was commonly called Nancy.<ref name="Reagan" /> Robbins lived her first two years in [[Flushing, Queens]], a neighborhood of New York City, in a two-story house on [[Roosevelt Avenue]] between 149th and 150th Streets.<ref name="nyt041291">{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DE123CF931A25757C0A967958260 |title= Talk and More Talk About Nancy (That One!) in Flushing |author=Gonzalez, David |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 12, 1991 |access-date=October 29, 2007 }}</ref> Her parents separated soon after her birth and were divorced in 1928.<ref name="Percha" /><ref name="First Lady Nancy Reagan" /><ref name="nbc-2004" /> After their separation, her mother traveled the country to pursue acting jobs and Robbins was raised in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], for six years by her aunt, Virginia Luckett, and uncle, Audley Gailbraith, where she attended [[Sidwell Friends School]] for kindergarten through second grade.<ref name="Percha" /><ref name="nbc-2004">{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/news/just-say-no-first-lady-wbna4297405 |title=The 'just say no' first lady |access-date=October 16, 2007 |publisher=Today.com |date=February 18, 2004 }}</ref> Nancy later described longing for her mother during those years: "My favorite times were when Mother had a job in New York, and Aunt Virgie would take me by train to stay with her."<ref>Reagan, Nancy (1989), p. 71.</ref> In 1929, her mother married Loyal Edward Davis (1896β1982), a prominent [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[Neurosurgery|neurosurgeon]] who moved the family to Chicago.<ref name="Percha" /><ref name="Nancy Reagan: Her Life & Times">{{cite web |url=http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/nancy/nancy_bio.asp|title=Nancy Reagan > Her Life & Times|access-date=September 22, 2007|publisher=Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024063625/http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/nancy/nancy_bio.asp|archive-date=October 24, 2006 }}</ref> Nancy and her stepfather got along very well;<ref name="nyt-lw">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9805EED81238E232A25755C2A9669D94619FD6CF&legacy=true|title=The Biggest Role of Nancy's Life|last=Weymouth|first=Lally|work=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|date=October 26, 1980|access-date=October 20, 2007|format=fee required|author-link=Lally Weymouth}}</ref> she later wrote that he was "a man of great integrity who exemplified old-fashioned values".<ref>Reagan, Nancy (1989), p. 74.</ref> He formally adopted her in 1938,<ref name="Nancy Reagan: Her Life & Times" /> and she would always refer to him as her father.<ref name="nyt-lw" /> At the time of the adoption, her name was legally changed to Nancy Davis.<ref name="Reagan">Reagan, Nancy (1989), p. 67.</ref> She attended the [[Latin School of Chicago|Girls' Latin School of Chicago]] (describing herself as an average student), from 1929, until she graduated in 1939, and later attended [[Smith College]] in [[Massachusetts]], where she majored in English and drama, graduating in 1943.<ref name="First Lady Nancy Reagan" /><ref>Reagan, Nancy (1989), p. 82.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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