Family
Ruckman has been married three times, with his first two marriages ending in contentious divorces. During his marriage to Janie Bess May of Sawyerville, Alabama, they had five children together. His son, P.S. Ruckman Jr., is a professor of political science at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois.
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“The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.”
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