Thursday, September 15, 2011

Newt Gingrich Biography

Newt Gingrich Profile Biography – Biographyzone.com. Newton Leroy “Newt” Gingrich (born June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as Newton Leroy McPherson) is an American politician and a former Republican congressman of the State of Georgia (1979 to 1999). From 1995 to 1999 he was Speaker of the House. Is associated with it, the Republican revolution, which has in the election battle for Congress 1994 performed the first time in four decades to a Republican majority. 1995 Time magazine chose him for the person of the year.
He subsequently played a leading role in the failed impeachment of President Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky affair had, but which is due to an extramarital affair withdraw from politics. Since 1999 he works as a political consultant and TV commentator. He intends for the 2012 presidential candidates to

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Family
Newt Gingrich was born the son of 19-year-old Newton Searles McPherson and the 16-year-old Kathleen Daugherty, who had married in September 1942.   later Up to Robert Gingrich, married him, moved his mother alone. Then Robert Gingrich adopted his stepson and his name was on to him. When Newt Gingrich was an adult already, Robert and Kathleen Gingrich had a daughter, his half-sister, Candace Gingrich, now an activist of the U.S. lesbian and gay movement.
Born into a military family moved around often, and Newt Gingrich visited the schools of various military facilities.
Newt Gingrich was married three times previously. His former geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, he married at age 19 in 1977 and was divorced from her. In 1981 he married Marianne Ginther, from whom he divorced 1999th He then had an affair with Callista Bisek, a 33-year employee in the U.S. Congress, who he married the following year. His marriage to Jackie Battley, he has two married daughters, Kathy and Jackie.

Newt Gingrich Career History
In public, his private life was particularly an issue when in 1992 his Democratic opponent, Tony Center, a commercial switched, which contained the claim that Gingrich had “let his wife come on the day after her cancer surgery divorce papers”. The claim was not in this form correctly. But gave Gingrich’s friends in later years that he details of the divorce with his then estranged wife in the hospital discussed.

Education
After leaving school at Baker High School in Columbus in 1961 went to the Gingrich Emory University in Atlanta, from 1965, a BA received. He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans ended in 1968 with a master’s degree and 1971 with a Ph.D. into modern European history. From 1970 to 1978 taught Gingrich history at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.  In 1993, he gave a course on “Renewing American Civilization” at the Kennesaw State University.

Policy position
Gingrich supports a “guest worker program for Mexican citizens. He also supports the idea that some of these guest workers should have the possibility of naturalization.

Global warming
In a public debate with Senator John Kerry in April 2007, Gingrich expressed his conviction that the phenomenon takes place of global warming, in fact, and that “there is enough evidence to suggest that we should take the effective steps for reducing the carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere . This forum is supported Gingrich tax breaks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions instead of regulatory measures such as emissions trading.

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
By 1974 and 1976, Gingrich ran unsuccessfully for the seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the sixth election district of Georgia, extending from the southern suburbs of Atlanta to the border with Alabama extended. Both times he lost Flynt defeated the incumbent, Democrat John James. In 1978, Flynt was no longer a candidate, and Gingrich won the election against Democratic State Senator Virginia Shapard, a supporter of a constitutional amendment for gender equality, which took place in this conservative constituency no support. Gingrich was reelected six times in his constituency.
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