Daniel A. Ruge

(1917- 2005) born at Murdock, Cass County. Physician, neurosurgeon, educator, author, served as U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s physician at the White House from 1981 to 1985, treated the President after an assassination attempt in 1981. Consult 50 Plus, March 1981, p. 88 and Time, April 13, 1981, p. 47 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, May 24, 1981, p. B-6 and Who’s Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 4547 and obituaries in Chicago Tribune, September 4, 2005, Sec. 4, p.7 and New York Times, September 6, 2005, p. C-11.

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