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His parents' early separation left him and his mother to fend for themselves. His mother then married an Army officer, Robert Gingrich, in 1946. Newt's new stepfather adopted him and changed the boy's surname to his own. In an interview with a PBS Frontline reporter, Robert Gingrich described Newt as a "precocious" child, and added, "He was ...
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Newton Leroy Gingrich was born on June 17, 1943, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Kathleen and Newton McPherson. Shortly after Gingrich’s birth, his parents, who were teenagers, divorced, and his mother soon married Robert Gingrich, who adopted Newt and gave him his surname. Because Robert Gingrich served in the military, the family moved frequently...
Gingrich brought to Washington, D.C., the same energy and determination that had served him well on the campaign trail. He quickly became known as one of the “Young Turks,” a group of technology-savvy, young Republican conservatives reshaping the national party. In 1980, when Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican, was elected president, Gingrich...
Gingrich was elected by congressional Republicans as the fifty-eighth Speaker of the House of Representatives in January 1995. He was the third Georgian to serve as Speaker, following Howell Cobb (1849-51) and Charles Crisp(1891-95). In the early days of his speakership Gingrich drove members to vote on all ten provisions of the Contract with Ameri...
Since leaving Congress, Gingrich has remained active politically, largely through his position as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, and through his own organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future. In 2003 he founded the Center for Health Transformation, and in 2005 he engaged in c...
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Dec 7, 2011 · They returned to the United States in 1960, settling in Georgia. Robert Gingrich passed away in 1996; Kit, in 2003. How many times has he been married? Gingrich has been married three...
Roberta Gingrich was born in 1950, and Candace Gingrich was born in 1966. All three are Newt’s step-sisters. In 1962, when Newt was nineteen years old, he married Jackie Battley.
Jan 31, 2012 · Kathleen was 17 when Newt was born. By the time he was 3, she had married Robert Gingrich, who gave Newt the last name he would make famous. Sister Susan was born in 1948, and sister Roberta...
Nov 24, 1994 · It was September 1942 when 16-year-old Kathleen Daugherty married Newton C. McPherson Jr., a 19-year-old mechanic in a small town in Pennsylvania. ... her new husband, Robert B. Gingrich, an Army ...
His mother married a man named Robert Gingrich in 1946. Shortly after the marriage, Robert adopted Newt and gave him his name. The family moved to Europe due to his adoptive father’s career obligations. His mother went on to have three daughters with her second husband.
