Jack Kingston

John Heddens Jack Kingston was the U.S. Representative for Georgias 1st congressional district in Southeast Georgia, serving from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the House leadership when he served as vicechair of the Republican Conference. In 2014, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by retiring Senator Saxby Chambliss and advanced beyond the Mayprimary to the Julyrunoff where he was defeated by David Perdue. He currently works as a public policy principal at the firm of Squire Patton Boggs in Washington.

Kingston was born on April 24, 1955, in Bryan, Texas. He is the son of Martha Ann and Albert James Kingston, Jr., a widely published University professor who cofounded the National Reading Conference. In addition to Texas, Kingston grew up in Ethiopia and Athens, Georgia. Kingston received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics from the University of Georgia in 1978, where he also joined Lambda Chi Alpha and the Demosthenian Literary Society. He has lived in Savannah since 1977 and spent over a decade selling insurance and working in agribusiness throughout southeastern Georgia before entering politics in 1982. He was vice president of Palmer, Cay and Carswell from 19791992.

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