Who is Laura Ingraham? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with the late Anne Caroline Kozak, James Frederick Ingraham III, James F. Ingraham IV, Brooks M. Ingraham, and Curtis U. Ingraham, George Conway and Dinesh D’Souza, James V. Reyes, Maria Caroline, Michael Dmitri, Nikolai Peter and the early life and education of the conservative political commentator, author, lawyer, and television and radio host from the United States.
Laura Ingraham is a conservative political commentator, author, lawyer, and television and radio host from the United States.
Since October 2017, she has hosted The Ingraham Angle (weeknights, 7 PM/ET) on Fox News Channel, and she is the editor-in-chief of LifeZette.
Her previous radio show, The Laura Ingraham Show, was nationally syndicated.
Ingraham is well-known for her support for Donald Trump, and she served as an unofficial advisor to him during his presidency.
Net Worth
Laura Ingraham has an estimated net worth of $40 million.
She has been one of Fox News’ top earners since joining in 2007, commanding an annual salary of $18 million.
Aside from her television career, Ingraham earns millions more through her books and podcasts.
Early Life and Education
Laura Ingraham born Laura Anne Ingraham was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, on June 19, 1963.
She was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, to the late Anne Caroline Kozak and James Frederick Ingraham III, a member of the United States Navy during WWII.
Ingraham has three siblings: James F. Ingraham IV, Brooks M. Ingraham, and Curtis U. Ingraham.
Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants, and her father was of Irish and English descent.
Ingraham attended a Baptist church until the age of twelve before converting to Roman Catholicism.
She attended Glastonbury High School and graduated in 1981.
At Dartmouth College, Ingraham majored in English literature and Russian, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985.
She was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review, a conservative student newspaper, while at Dartmouth.
After college, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policy advisor for several years.
She then attended law school at the University of Virginia, where she served as the notes editor for the Virginia Law Review.
She received her Juris Doctorate in 1991 and worked as a law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Ingraham has had relationships with conservatives George Conway and Dinesh D’Souza.
She is not married at the moment. Previously, she was engaged to businessman James V. Reyes, but the relationship ended in 2005.
She is a single mother of three children: Maria Caroline adopted from Guatemala in 2008, Michael Dmitri, adopted from Russia in 2009, and Nikolai Peter, adopted from Russia in 2011.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Laura Ingraham worked as a speechwriter for the Reagan administration’s Domestic Policy Advisor in the late 1980s.
She also worked as an editor for The Prospect, Princeton’s Concerned Alumni magazine.
After graduating from law school in 1991, Ingraham worked as a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1991 to 1992 and for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from 1992 to 1993.
Later in her career, she worked as an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
In 1995, she was on the cover of The New York Times Magazine as part of a story about young conservatives.
She and Jay P. Lefkowitz organised the first Dark Ages Weekend in response to Renaissance Weekend in 1996.
Television host Career
Laura Ingraham’s media career began in the mid-1990s.
Ingraham has three times worked as a cable television host. She made her MSNBC debut in 1996.
In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted the MSNBC show Watch It!.
Several years later, on her radio show, Ingraham began campaigning for another cable television show.
In 2008, Fox News Channel gave her a three-week trial run on a new show called Just In.
She took over as host of The Ingraham Angle, a new Fox News Channel show, in October 2017.
Radio host Career
In addition to her role on FNC, Ingraham hosts her podcast, The Laura Ingraham Show, which she started in April 2001.
The show aired on 306 radio stations as well as XM Satellite Radio. It was originally syndicated by Westwood One before being moved to Talk Radio Network in 2004.
In 2012, Talkers Magazine ranked the show as the fifth-best radio show in America.
In November 2012, Ingraham announced her departure from Talk Radio Network, declining to renew her contract with the network after nearly a decade of association.
Her new Courtside Entertainment Group-syndicated show premiered on January 2, 2013 and ended in December 2018.
Ingraham is still producing podcast content for Courtside’s Podcast One division.
Other Ventures
Laura Ingraham and businessman Peter Anthony co-founded LifeZette, a conservative American website, in 2015.
Ingraham confirmed in January 2018 that she had sold the majority stake in LifeZette to The Katz Group, which is owned by Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz.
She is a writer and producer best known for The 12 Hour News Hour (2007), The Simpsons (1989), and The Ingraham Angle (2017).
Laura Ingraham is also the author of “The Hillary Trap,” “Shut Up & Sing,” “Power to the People,” and “The Obama Diaries,” among other New York Times best-sellers.
Of Thee I Zing, a New York Times best-seller published on July 12, 2011, is a collection of amusing anecdotes intended to highlight the decline of American culture, ranging from muffin tops to body shots.
Billionaire at the Barricades, published in 2017, explains Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory as the continuation of a populist revolution initiated by Ronald Reagan and supported by the working class.
Achievements and Awards
Laura Ingraham is a well-known broadcaster and media personality.
She rose to prominence in the late 1990s with her radio show, “The Laura Ingraham Show.” The show was known for its conservative commentary and criticism of liberal policies and politicians, and it aired on more than 300 radio stations across the country.
Laura Ingraham published her first book, “The Hillary Trap: Seeking Power in All the Wrong Places,” in 2001. The book went on to become a New York Times best-seller, establishing Ingraham as a prominent conservative voice.
Controversies
Laura Ingraham is best known for her forthright and confrontational style, which has earned her both fans and detractors.
She has been described as a “name-brand provocateur” by Politico and “no stranger to generating controversy” by Variety.
A number of people, including her gay brother, have accused Ingraham of being anti-homosexual. According to Ingraham, she supports civil unions between same-sex partners but opposes same-sex marriage.
Ingraham wrote several controversial articles during her senior year at Dartmouth College as editor-in-chief of the independent campus newspaper The Dartmouth Review.
Ingraham sent an undercover reporter to a Gay Students Association meeting on campus in 1984 and later faced backlash when, despite an oath of confidentiality being read to participants, she published a transcript of the meeting.
Ingraham has frequently criticised immigration and has expressed anti-immigrant sentiments. She was opposed to the proposed bipartisan US Senate comprehensive immigration reform plan in 2013.
Ingraham stated in 2014 that allowing more immigrant workers to enter the US would be “obscene to the American experience.”
Ingraham claimed in September 2014 that then-President Barack Obama sent aid to Africa during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, exposing Americans to the virus out of guilt over “colonialism.”
She spread unsubstantiated claims in June 2019 that asylum seekers to the United States may be infected with the Ebola virus.
Ingraham criticised the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness programme in September 2022, claiming that her mother worked as a waitress until she was 73 to help pay for Ingraham’s loans.
Ingraham supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the Republican Party presidential primaries in 2016, she said she thought the Iraq war was a mistake and criticised “Bushism” as Trump ran against Jeb Bush.
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Ingraham questioned the legitimacy of vaccines and instead advocated for the use of the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
She referred to it as a miracle drug and invited guests to her show to promote it.
Ingraham criticised the requirement that people wear face masks in public to stop the spread of the coronavirus in May 2020.
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