Newt Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author. He served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He was the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. Gingrich ran for the Republican nomination for President in the 2012 presidential election. He withdrew from the race in May 2012 and endorsed eventual nominee Mitt Romney. Gingrich has remained active in public policy debates and worked as a political consultant.
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Newt Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author. He served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He was the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. Gingrich ran for the Republican nomination for President in the 2012 presidential election. He withdrew from the race in May 2012 and endorsed eventual nominee Mitt Romney. Gingrich later emerged as a key ally of Donald Trump, and was reportedly among the finalists on Trump’s short list for running mate in the 2016 election. His mother, Kathleen, and biological father, Newton Searles McPherson, married in September 1942, when she was 16 and he was 19. The marriage fell apart within days. Gingrich is of English, German, Scottish and Scots-Irish descent. He has three younger half-sisters from his mother, Candace and Susan Gingrich, and Roberta Brown. Gingrich has remained active in public policy debates and worked as a political consultant. He founded and chaired several policy think tanks, including American Solutions for Winning the Future and the Center for Health Transformation. He spent six months in Brussels in 1969–70 working on his Ph. D. in European history. Gingrich received deferments from the military during the years of the Vietnam War for being a student and a father. He left the college in 1978 when he was elected to Congress. He is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta and Tulane University, earning an M.
A. and a Ph.D. in history. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children. He and his wife have a son and a daughter, and he has a half-brother and half-daughter from his biological father’s side. He also has a step-son and step-sister from his step-mother, Kathleen Gingrich, from whom he has two step-great-granddaughters. The couple has a son, Ryan, who is a physician and serves as a physician at the University of West Georgia. Gingrich and his family live in Atlanta, Georgia, and have three children, all of whom are active members of the Republican Party. The family has three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Gingrich was the first Republican in the history of Georgia’s 6th Congressional district to do so. Gingrich served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995. In 1995, Time named him ‘Man of the Year’ for his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House. As House Speaker, Gingrich oversaw passage by the House of welfare reform and a capital gains tax cut in 1997. Gingrich played a key role in several government shutdowns, and impeached President Clinton on a party-line vote in 1998. He resigned altogether from the House on January 3, 1999. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 Congressional elections, a reprimand for Gingrich’s ethics violation, pressure from Republican colleagues, and revelations of an extramarital affair with a congressional employee 23 years his junior resulted in Gingrich’s resignation from the speakership.
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