Michael Reagan was an American conservative political commentator, Republican Party strategist, radio talk show host, and author. He worked as a columnist for Newsmax. He also worked as an actor in movies and television shows beginning in 1985, including Capitol and Falcon Crest. In 1987, he served as the host for the first season of the television game show Lingo.
Reagan was the adopted son of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman. He was born John Charles Flaugher at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, on March 18, 1945, to Essie Irene Flaugher, an unmarried woman from Kentucky who became pregnant through a relationship with John Bourgholtzer, a U.S. Army corporal. He was adopted by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman shortly after his birth.
Reagan died of cancer in Los Angeles, on January 4, 2026, at the age of 80.
