Laura Ingraham – now we know why the talkshow host has never been married

Laura Ingraham was born June 19, 1963 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Her upbringing was one of the working class. Laura’s father James Frederick Ingraham III, was a World War II veteran and carwash owner.

Her mother, Anne Caroline Kozak, meanwhile, worked at the local school and later as a waitress.

Laura Ingraham’s school life

Ingraham grew up alongside three older brothers. “They were pretty rough and tumble,” she explains.

Perhaps surprisingly, she wasn’t politically involved at school, focusing instead on athletics.

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.

“The Review took over my life,” Ingraham told in1999.

“Here you had all these ’60s liberals — who used to be storming administration buildings themselves — in power at Dartmouth, and they didn’t know what to do with this conservative independent paper. I was sued a couple of times for libel by professors. We ended up on ’60 Minutes.’ It was a real catalyst for political involvement — and made doing ‘Crossfire’ look like nothing.”

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