- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)
- Creator:
- Grant, Chris
- Date of Original:
- 2008-08-29
- Subject:
- Legislators--United States
Politicians--United States
United States. Congress--Leadership
United States. Congress. House--Speakers
Gingrich, Newt
Authors, American--Washington (D.C.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Newt Gingrich. As a Republican U.S. congressman from Georgia's Sixth District from 1979 to 1999, Newt Gingrich emerged as one of the nation's most powerful and polarizing political leaders in the 1990s. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, a position he achieved largely through his "Contract with America," a ten-point program of conservative reform that, along with frustration over U.S. president Bill Clinton's administration, led to a historic shift in congressional power, with Republicans winning a majority of both houses for the first time in forty years.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/newt-gingrich-b-1943/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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