Newt Gingrich

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Newton Leroy Gingrich (June 17, 1943) is an American politician, essayist, and scholar who served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.

From 1979 to 1999, he served as the United States Representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district from 1979 to 1999.

In 2012, Gingrich was a front-runner for his party's presidential nomination. Gingrich, a professor of history and geography at the University of West Georgia in the 1970s, became the first Republican to run in the United States House of Representatives in November 1978, the first Republican in the state's sixth congressional district to do so.

He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995.

Gingrich, a co-author and architect of the "Contract with America" campaign, was a key figure in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election.

Time named him "Man of the Year" in 1995 for his "role in ending the House's four-decades-long Democratic majority."

Gingrich was instrumental in several government shutdowns, as well as impeaching President Clinton on a party-line vote in the House.

Gingrich resigned from the speakership in 1998 after a poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 congressional elections, a reprimand by Republican colleagues, pressuring, rumors of an extramarital affair with a congress employee 23 years his junior, resulting in his dismissal from office.

On January 3, 1999, he resigned entirely from the House of Commons. Since leaving the House of Commons, political scientists have credited Gingrich with undermining democratic values in the United States, as well as hastened political polarization and partisanship.

Several policy think tanks, including American Solutions for Winning the Future and the Center for Health Transformation, were founded and chaired by him.

In the 2012 presidential race, he ran for the Republican nomination but ultimately endorsed front runner Mitt Romney, who ultimately accepted the nomination.

Early life

Newton Leroy McPherson was born at the Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943. Kathleen "Kit" (née Daugherty; 1925-2003), and biological father Newton Searles McPherson (1923-1970), married in September 1942, when she was 16 and McPherson was 19. Within days, the marriage fell apart. He is of English, German, Scottish, and Scotish descent.

His mother, Robert Gingrich (1925-1996), who adopted him in 1946, married him in 1946. Robert Gingrich, a career Army officer, served tours in Korea and Vietnam. The family migrated to Europe in 1956, spending a period in Orléans, France, and Stuttgart, Germany.

Gingrich has three younger half-sisters from his mother, Candace and Susan Gingrich, and Roberta Brown. Gingrich was raised in Hummelstown (near Harrisburg) and on military bases where his adoptive father was stationed. The family's faith was Lutheran. Randy McPherson, both his half-sister and half-brother from his biological father's side, has a half-brother. The family moved to Fort Benning, Georgia, during his junior year in high school.

Gingrich graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia, where he met, and later married, his math instructor. Since his teen years, he had been interested in politics. He visited the Battle of Verdun while visiting Orléans, France, and learned about the sacrifices made there and the importance of political leadership.

In 1965, Gingrich earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University in Atlanta. He went on to graduate study at Tulane University, earning an M.A. (1968) and a PhD in European history (1971). He spent six months in Brussels, 1969–70, researching his dissertation, Belgium's Education Policy in the Congo 1945-1960.

During the Vietnam War, Gingrich was given deferral from the military for being a scholar and a father. "Given everything I believe in," he said in 1985, "a substantial portion of me thinks I should have gone over."

Gingrich graduated from West Georgia College's history department in 1970, where he spent "no time teaching history." He supervised a new environmental studies program and was booted out of the history department "by 1976." During his time in the college, he took unpaid leave three times to run for the House of Representatives, losing twice before leaving the college. Serving professors were not allowed to run for office under the university system's laws. After being refused tenure, he left the college in 1977.

Personal life

Gingrich has been married three times. When Jacqueline May "Jackie" Battley (February 21, 1936) her former high school geometry teacher was 26 years old and she was 26 years old, he and his mother, Jacqueline May "Jackie" Battley married in 1962. Kathy and Sue Sue, the president of Gingrich Communications, and Jackie Sue, a liberal columnist and political commentator, had two daughters.

Gingrich's son, who was running for office in 1974, was involved in an affair with a young volunteer. "It was common knowledge" that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie, according to an aide who worked with Gingrich during the 1970s. After beginning an affair with Marianne Ginther in 1980, Gingrich applied for divorce from Jackie. Jackie later said in 1984 that the separation was a "complete surprise" to her.

According to family members who knew them both, Gingrich visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to repair her uterine cancer; while there, Gingrich began to discuss the terms of their separation, prompting Jackie to call him out of the room. That account was denied by Gingrich. Although Gingrich's presidential campaign staff continued to insist that Jackie had requested the divorce in 2011, court papers from Carroll County, Georgia, showed that Jackie had in fact begged a judge to stop the process, saying that although "she has adequate and ample reasons for divorce [and] does not admit that this marriage is irretrievably broken."

Jackie isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife, according to L. H. Carter, Gingrich's campaign treasurer. And, of course, she has cancer." Gingrich has denied that it was said. Jackie had to raise money from her church neighbors to help her and the kids after the divorce; she later filed a lawsuit alleging that Gingrich failed to adequately care for his family. Gingrich gave the judge a financial statement, showing that he had been "providing only $400 a month, more $40 in allowances for his daughters." He said he would not be able to afford any more. However, Gingrich charged $400 just for 'Food / dry cleaning,' etc., instead of citing his own expenditures. "For one person." A judge ordered Gingrich to perform much more in 1981, and Jackie Gingrich confessed in court that Gingrich had refused to obey the 1981 order "from the day it was first announced." Jackie, a deacon and volunteer with First Baptist Church of Carrollton, Georgia, died in 2013 in Atlanta at the age of 77.

Marianne Ginther wed her in 1981, six months after Jackie's divorce from Jackie was final. Marianne helped them out of debt by regulating their finances in order to get them out of debt. She did not want to have the public life of a politician's wife, but not so much. Kathy Gingrich's daughter, Kat, referred to the marriage as "difficult."

Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek in 1993, while still married to Marianne. And as he was responsible for Bill Clinton's impeachment for crimes relating to Clinton's own extramarital affair, Gingrich was involved in this affair. Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, just months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. No children were born in the marriage. Marianne confessed in an interview with ABC's Nightline on January 19, 2012 that she had declined to honor Gingrich's proposal for an open marriage. The account was denied by Gingrich.

Gingrich married Callista Bisek four months after his divorce from Marianne was finalized in August 2000. He and Callista live in McLean, Virginia.

In a 2011 interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Gingrich addressed his past infidelities, partially due to how passionately I felt about this country that I worked too hard and events that were not appropriate." After the group Iowans for Christian Leaders in Government requested that he sign their so-called "Marriage Vow," Gingrich wrote in December 2011. It contained his pledge to "uphold personal fidelity to my spouse."

Gingrich, who was raised as a Lutheran, was a Southern Baptist in graduate school. On March 29, 2009, he converted to Catholicism, the faith of his third wife Callista Bisek. "I gradually became Catholic and then decided to embrace the faith I had already come to embrace over the years," he said. During Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States in 2008, he declared himself a Catholic." "I was struck by the ferociousness and quietness he exuded." The Holy Father's joyful and radiating presence was a moment of clarity about the numerous things I had been considering and experiencing for many years." "In America, religious conviction is being undermined by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life," he said at a 2011 appearance in Columbus, Ohio.

The Catholic Church validates his third marriage as valid, based on an annulment granted for his second marriage and the death of his wife from his first marriage.

Gingrich has expressed a keen interest in animals. Gingrich's first involvement in civic affairs was speaking to the city council in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about why the city should have its own zoo. He authored the introduction to America's Best Zoos and claims to have visited more than 100 Zoos.

Gingrich has expressed excitement for dinosaurs. "Charmingly, he has maintained his admiration for the extinct giants into middle age," the New Yorker wrote in 1995: "To Renew America." In addition to incorporating breakthroughs in dinosaur study on his list of futuristic wonders, he named "people interested in dinosaurs" as a prime example of those who could benefit from his education plans.

Since a fascination with the United States/Soviet Union Space Race began in his teenage years, Gingrich's space exploration has piqued his attention. Gingrich intends that the United States pursue new space achievements, including the preservation of civilizations beyond Earth, but advocates continue to depend on the private sector and less on publicly funded NASA to propel progress. He has been on the National Space Society Board of Governors since 2010.

During the 2012 election campaign, Artinfo reported that Gingrich has expressed admiration for the work of two American artists. James H. Cromartie's painting of the US Capitol as "an exceptional and truly beautiful work of art," Norman Rockwell's book "contraversies" with the prevalent notion of the modern day's "cultural elites."

Gingrich will debut a new version of Crossfire in fall 2013, according to CNN, with panelists S. E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, and Van Jones. On the newly revised debate agenda, Gingrich led the right. The show was cancelled the following year.

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Early political career

In the 1968 Republican primaries, Gingrich was the southern regional director for Nelson Rockefeller.

In 1974, Gingrich made his first attempt for political office in Georgia's 6th congressional district, which includes many of Atlanta's northern suburbs, portions of eastern Cobb County, northern Fulton County, and northern DeKalb County. By 2,770 votes, he defeated 20-year incumbent Jack Flynt by 2,770 votes. In the suburban areas of the district, Gingrich had a massive lead, but was unable to overcome Flynt's lead in the more urban areas. Political commentators were taken aback by Gingrich's relative aboundance. Flynt had never been put off by a significant challenger; Gingrich was the second Republican to ever run against him. Despite being weakened politically as a result of the Nixon administration's Watergate scandal, he did well against Flynt in 1974.

In 1976, Gingrich fought Flynt in a rematch. Although the Republicans did marginally better in the 1976 House of Representatives than in 1974 nationally, the Democratic presidential nominee in the 1976 presidential election was former Governor Jimmy Carter. Carter's native Georgia gained more than two-thirds of the vote. By 5,100 votes, Gingrich lost his election.

Flynt decided to resign as Gingrich prime minister of another bid in the 1978 elections. Senator Virginia Shapard of Michigan won by 7,500 votes over Gingrich. Five times from this district, Gingrich was re-elected five times. He faced a close general election in 1990, when he gained by 978 votes in a primary election against Republican Herman Clark and then won by a narrow 974 vote over Democrat David Worley in the general. Despite the fact that the district was trending Republican on the national level, conservative Democrats retained most municipal offices, as well as majority of the area's seats in the General Assembly well into the 1980s.

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