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Donald Regan

American banker and cabinet official (1918–2003)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Donald Thomas Regan was an American government official and business executive who served as the 66th United States secretary of the treasury from 1981 to 1985 and as the 11th White House chief of staff from 1985 to 1987 under President Ronald Reagan.

Editorial summary

“Donald Regan” enters the record as american banker and cabinet official (1918–2003). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Donald, Regan and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1985, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Donald, Regan and American.
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“Donald Regan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Donald, Regan and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1981, 1985 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Donald Regan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.