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In 1994, Gingrich defined a Contract with America, a list of campaign promises, presented as acts of Congress, signed by himself and other Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. Haley Barbour, former RNC Chairman and Governor of Mississippi, remarked in literature given out to party activists, “…it is about defining, building and communicating what our party stands for, where we will take government”. The acts were designed to unite the various factions of the party and provide a contrast with the policies of the Democ ...

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While in high school, Gingrich started to date his geometry teacher, Jackie Battley. On June 19, 1962, he married her. Their first child was born the following year. In 1980, Gingrich asked his first wife for a divorce. Gingrich tried to discuss the terms of his divorce with his wife while she was in a hospital bed recovering from surgery for uterine cancer. In February 1981, the divorce was finalized, and in August 1981 ...

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Newt Gingrich - Nonfiction. The Government's Role in Solving Societal Problems. Associated Faculty Press, Incorporated. January 1982 ISBN 0867330260 Window of Opportunity. Tom Doherty Associates, December 1985. ISBN 031293923X Contract with America (co-editor). Times Books, December 1994. ISBN 0812925866 Restoring the Dream. Times Books, May 1995. ISBN 0812926668 Quotations from Speaker Newt. Workman Publishing Company, Inc., July 1995. ISBN 07 ...

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Gingrich has since remained involved in national politics and public policy debate. He is a senior fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, focusing on health care (he has founded the Center for Health Transformation), information technology, the military, and politics. He sometimes serves as a commentator, guest or panel member on television news shows. He is listed as a contributor by Fox News Channel, and frequently appears as a guest on the channel; he has also hosted occasional specials for the FNC. See also:

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He was born Newton McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Newton Searles McPherson and Kathleen Daugherty. His parents separated soon after Newt's birth, and his mother raised him by herself until she married Robert Gingrich, who adopted Newt, hence the name change. Gingrich has a younger half-sister, Candace Gingrich, who was born when he was already a young adult. Gingrich rarely saw her when she was growing up. Gingrich's adopted surname has been generally pronounced "Ging-ritch" since his entry into public life. However, his adoptive family has always pronounced the name "Gin-g ...

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Newt Gingrich - Election of 1992. Gingrich was reelected ten times, facing only one truly difficult race. That came in 1990. when he barely defeated Democrat David Worley. During the 1990s round of redistricting, Democrats in the Georgia state legislature tried to draw Gingrich's district out from under him by splitting most of his old territory among two other districts. At the same time, they created a new 6th District located in Fulton and Cobb counties in the wealthy northern suburbs of Atlanta—an ar ...

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In 1974 and 1976, Newt Gingrich made two unsuccessful runs for Congress in Georgia's sixth congressional district, which stretched from the southern Atlanta suburbs to the Alabama border. Gingrich lost both times to incumbent Democrat Jack Flynt. Jack Flynt was a conservative Democrat of the Georgia delegation who had family political ties that bound him to a particular powerbase within his district. He had never faced a serious challenge prior to Gingrich's two runs against him. In both cases, Flynt just barely squeaked by even thoug ...

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