Laura Ingraham has been a recognizable face at Fox News for several years now.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old is somewhat of a polarizing figure on TV, but she\u2019s certainly been successful when it comes to forging a career in an extremely competitive arena.
\nBut what about her private life? Here\u2019s all you need to know about the talkshow host.<\/p>\n
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Laura Ingraham was born June 19, 1963 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her upbringing was one of the working class. Laura\u2019s father, James Frederick Ingraham III, was a World War II veteran and carwash owner.<\/p>\n
Her mother, Anne Caroline Kozak, meanwhile, worked at the local school and later as a waitress.<\/p>\n
Laura Ingraham\u2019s school life
\nIngraham grew up alongside three older brothers. \u201cThey were pretty rough and tumble,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n
Perhaps surprisingly, she wasn\u2019t politically involved at school, focusing instead on athletics.<\/p>\n
In 1981, she graduated from Glastonbury High School and moved on to college. Ingraham attended the private University of Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire for her undergrad. There, she worked as the editor-in-chief of the prestigious conservative Dartmouth Review school newspaper. Ingraham became its first female editor, and she sure knew how to stir the pot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Review took over my life,\u201d Ingraham told the Hartford Courant in 1999.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere you had all these \u201960s liberals \u2014 who used to be storming administration buildings themselves \u2014 in power at Dartmouth, and they didn\u2019t know what to do with this conservative independent paper. I was sued a couple of times for libel by professors. We ended up on \u201960 Minutes.\u2019 It was a real catalyst for political involvement \u2014 and made doing \u2018Crossfire\u2019 look like nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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During her time with the paper, she sent an undercover reporter into a LGBTQ university organization to report on who was attending, according to Business Insider.
\nSued at Dartmouth
\nShe interviewed people like conservative pundit and politician William Bennett, Pat Buchanan and American Spectator editor Emmett Tyrrell. However, her spell at the newspaper would also be one embroiled in scandal.<\/p>\n
Ingraham came under fire from a lawsuit when the paper was sued for libel by then professor William Cole. She\u2019d written an article about his class which said that his class was \u201cthe most outrageous,\u201d on campus, calling him a \u201cused Brillo pad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2033Mr. Cole is black; he alleges that the Review purposely publishes articles \u2026 to defame and ridicule blacks,\u201d Magistrate Jerome Niedermeier said. \u2033In fact, the Review makes no secret of its opposition to many blacks present at Dartmouth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ingraham didn\u2019t agree at all, calling the lawsuit \u201cabsurd\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2033I\u2019m not sure who won but I feel I\u2019ve made a point,\u2033 she said. \u2033It is a tremendous breakthrough for investigative journalism in the classroom.\u2033<\/p>\n
After the two-year libel suit, Cole and the Dartmouth Review signed a 21-page statement agreeing to end the dispute. In addition, Cole had sought $600,000 in damages. He didn\u2019t receive any money.<\/p>\n
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Ingraham would also work with conservative activist Gary Bauer as a speechwriter for William Bennett.<\/p>\n
Speechwriter work
\nFollowing her graduation, she went on to work as a speechwriter in the Reagan administration and the Secretary of Transportation. She later returned to school, earning her Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia School of Law.<\/p>\n
Ingraham went on to work as a judicial clerk in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York for Ralph Winter, a well-known and respected federal judge.<\/p>\n
Then, she worked for Court Justice Clarence Thomas in United States Supreme Court and also for law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. At the law firm, she worked along Bob Bennett, the brother of William Bennett.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a force of nature,\u201d Bob Bennett said. \u201cShe was very able, very bright and had a lot of energy. It was also very clear to me that the law was too confining for her. Listen, if she stuck with practicing law, she would have been a tremendous success. But her real interest and skills lay in politics. She had strong opinions and was very effective in how she articulated them. I thought it would be a good match for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ingraham\u2019s career in media started off in the mid-1990s. She had her own show at MSNBC named Watch It!.<\/p>\n
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In 2001, she launched the radio program The Laura Ingraham Show. It was heard on more than 300 stations as well as on XM Satellite Radio. The show was recorded in Washington, D.C, featuring Ingraham\u2019s views on a wide range of political topics.<\/p>\n
She also appeared as a frequent guest host of The O\u2019Reilly Factor on Fox News, a television network she later would return to.<\/p>\n
Becoming a \u201cpundette\u201d
\nFor Ingraham, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was a big thing since it was the start of young conservative women getting airtime as political pundits, known as \u201cpundettes\u201d, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n
She had talents older pundits didn\u2019t like and were afraid of. Unlike others, she didn\u2019t come from a job in journalism.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is young, sexy and ambitious,\u201d journalist Eric Alterman wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe argues politics the way lawyers argue cases, as if there can be no possible interpretation other than her own, and what can possibly be the matter with her pathetically out-to-lunch opponent?\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2004 The Laura Ingraham Show moved to Talk Radio Network and continued growing. She was rated the No. 5 radio show in the US by Talkers Magazine in 2012.<\/p>\n
Ingraham also got herself featured on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in 1995 for a story on young conservatives.<\/p>\n
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Thereafter, Ingraham quickly rose to become one of the most powerful women in the field of political and cultural commentary.
\nLaura Ingraham \u2013 Fox News
\nYet she wanted a bigger platform for her show. In 2008, her wish came true. She got a three-week trial period for the television show Just In on Fox News.<\/p>\n
Ingraham announced in 2012 that she was leaving after nearly a decade with the Talk Radio Network. Her popular radio show The Laura Ingraham Show moved to the Courtside Entertainment Group as of January, 2013.<\/p>\n
At the same time, she also founded the conservative American website LifeZettle.<\/p>\n
Then, in October, 2017, she became the host of a new Fox News Channel program, The Ingraham Angle. It became an instant success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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