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Roger Ailes

American television producer and political consultant
Also known as: Roger Eugene Ailes
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Roger Ailes (born May 15, 1940, Warren, Ohio, U.S.—died May 18, 2017) was an American television producer and political consultant who became the founding president of Fox News Channel (1996–16). Ailes, the son of a foreman at a Packard Electric plant, grew up in an Ohio factory town. He began a career in television the year that he graduated from Ohio University (B.A., 1962), serving as a property assistant for the Cleveland-based program The Mike...

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