Newt Gingrich

Newton Leroy Newt Gingrich is an American politician and political consultant. He represented Georgias 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1979 until his resignation in 1999, and served as the 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 2012, Gingrich was a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination.

Newton Leroy McPherson was born at the Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943. His mother, Kathleen Kit , and father, Newton Searles McPherson , married in September 1942, when she wasand McPherson was 19. The marriage fell apart within days. He is of German, English, Scottish, and Irish descent.

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