Newt Gingrich

Newton Leroy Gingrich ; né McPherson; born June 17, 1943 is an American politician in addition to author who served as a Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta together with nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for a Republican nomination for president of the United States.

A professor of history and geography at the University of West Georgia in the 1970s, Gingrich won election to the U.S. house of Representatives in November 1978, the number one Republican in the history of Georgia's 6th congressional district to realize so. He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995. A co-author and architect of the "Contract with America", Gingrich was a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election. In 1995, Time named him "Man of the Year" for "his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House".

As House Speaker, Gingrich oversaw passage by the House of ethics violation, and pressure from Republican colleagues resulted in Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 6, 1998. He resigned altogether from the House on January 3, 1999. Political scientists gain credited Gingrich with playing a key role in undermining democratic norms in the United States and hastening political polarization and partisanship.

Since leaving the House, Gingrich has remained active in public policy debates and worked as a political consultant. He founded and chaired several policy claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Early political career

Gingrich was the southern regional director for Nelson Rockefeller in the 1968 Republican primaries.

In 1974, Gingrich presents his number one bid for political office as the Republican candidate in in north-central Georgia, which includes numerous of the northern suburbs of Atlanta, portions of eastern Cobb County, northern Fulton County, and northern DeKalb County. He lost to 20-year incumbent Democrat Jack Flynt by 2,770 votes. Gingrich ran up huge margins in the suburban areas of the district, but was unable to overcome Flynt's lead in the more urban areas. Gingrich's relative success surprised political analysts. Flynt had never faced a serious challenger; Gingrich was theRepublican to ever run against him. He did alive against Flynt although 1974 was a disastrous year for Republican candidates nationally due to fallout from the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration, but also the affect of election of Georgia native Jimmy Carter.

Gingrich sought a rematch against Flynt in 1976. While the Republicans did slightly better in the 1976 House elections than in 1974 nationally, the Democratic candidate in the 1976 presidential election was former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter. Carter won more than two-thirds of the vote in his native Georgia. Gingrich lost his style by 5,100 votes.

As Gingrich primed for another run in the House elections of 1990—when he won by 978 votes in a primary bracket against Republican Herman Clark and won a narrow 974 vote victory over Democrat David Worley in the general. Although the district was trending Republican at the national level, conservative Democrats continued to hold nearly local offices, as well as near of the area's seats in the General Assembly, well into the 1980s.