Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was an American Democratic politician who served as Governor of California from 1967-1975 and ran for President on three occasions as a Democrat - 1972, 1976 and 1980 as the figurehead of the party's Western-dominated, populist conservative wing. While he captured the Democratic nomination in 1976 after an infamous floor fight with delegates loyal to then-Connecticut Governor Georgue Bush, Reagan went on to narrowly lose the election to Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson.