newt gingrich

     

In 1997 all but 10 Republican congressmen voted to re-elect this House speaker

Trivia about newt gingrich

  • On January 7, 1997 he became the first Republican in 68 years to win successive terms as House speaker
  • In 1997 this politician got in trouble over his courses at Georgia's Kennesaw State & Reinhardt College
  • In 1997 he became the first House speaker to be formally reprimanded; he was fined $300,000
  • On January 4, 1995 he was sworn in as the first Republican speaker of the house in more than 40 years
  • Relentless in his pursuit of conservative ideals, he was named Time's Man of the Year for 1995
  • First elected in 1978 from Georgia's 6th District, he's that state's senior member in the House
  • He shared his views on domestic policy in the 1995 bestseller "To Renew America"
  • As Speaker of the House, he was Dennis Hastert's predecessor
  • Georgia Republican who began whipping all those House Republicans in March 1989
  • "To the degree I was too brash, too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize", this Speaker of the House said in 1997
  • This former house speaker was reprimanded in 1997 for misuse of tax-exempt funds & submitting false informaiton
  • "Gettysburg", cowritten by this former House speaker, imagines a Confederate victory at Gettysburg
  • On January 4, 1995 he became speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

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