Laura Ingraham – Now We Know Why the Talkshow Host Has Never Been Married

Laura Ingraham has been a recognizable face at Fox News for several years now. The 60-year-old is somewhat of a polarizing figure on TV, but she’s certainly been successful when it comes to forging a career in an extremely competitive arena.

But what about her private life? Here’s all you need to know about the talkshow host.

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 the Hartford Courant in 1999.

“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.”

During her time with the paper, she sent an undercover reporter into a LGBTQ university organization to report on who was attending, according to Business Insider.

Sued at Dartmouth

She interviewed people like conservative pundit and politician William Bennett, Pat Buchanan and American Spectator editor Emmett Tyrrell. However, her spell at the newspaper would also be one embroiled in scandal.

Ingraham came under fire from a lawsuit when the paper was sued for libel by then professor William Cole. She’d written an article about his class which said that his class was “the most outrageous,” on campus, calling him a “used Brillo pad.”

″Mr. Cole is black; he alleges that the Review purposely publishes articles … to defame and ridicule blacks,” Magistrate Jerome Niedermeier said. ″In fact, the Review makes no secret of its opposition to many blacks present at Dartmouth.”

Ingraham didn’t agree at all, calling the lawsuit “absurd”.

″I’m not sure who won but I feel I’ve made a point,″ she said. ″It is a tremendous breakthrough for investigative journalism in the classroom.″

After the two-year libel suit, Cole and the Dartmouth Review signed a 21-page statement agreeing to end the dispute. In addition, Cole had sought $600,000 in damages. He didn’t receive any money.

Ingraham would also work with conservative activist Gary Bauer as a speechwriter for William Bennett.