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- NAME: Newt Gingrich
- OCCUPATION: U.S. Representative
- BIRTH DATE: June 17, 1943 (Age: 69)
- EDUCATION: Emory University, Tulane University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Full Name: Newton Leroy Gingrich
- ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini
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With his "Contract with America," former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich established his position as the head of the anti-Clinton Republican wave in 1994.
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He also had some offbeat proposals, including the creation of an American colony on the Moon. In January 2012, Gingrich won the state primary of South Carolina. He then won his home state of Georgia in March. These proved to be his only two victories. That May, Gingrich finally decided to pull out of the race.
"Today I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship,
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" Gingrich told the press. He vowed to continue fighting for the causes that he believes in, but he ruled another presidential run.
A prolific author, Gingrich has written several books, including Lessons Learned the Hard Way (1998), Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America (2005), Rediscovering God in America (2006), and To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine (2010). He also cowrote an alternative history series on the Civil War and World War II.
Personal Life
Newt Gingrich married Jackie Battley in 1962, when he was 19 years old. The couple had two daughters together, Jackie and Kathy, before their split in 1980. Gingrich remarried in 1981 to Marianne Ginther, whom he met during a political fundraiser in Ohio. Ginther and Gingrich divorced in 1999.
Gingrich currently lives in McLean, Virginia, with his third wife, Callista Bisek. The couple married in 2000, and together they create public policy documentaries through their production company, Gingrich Productions.
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