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Since leaving the House, Gingrich has remained active in public policy debates and worked as a political consultant. Political scientists have credited Gingrich with playing a key role in hastening political polarization and partisanship. He resigned altogether from the House on January 3, 1999. The poor showing by Republicans in the 1998 congressional elections, a reprimand from the House for Gingrich's ethics violation, and pressure from Republican colleagues resulted in Gingrich's resignation from the speakership on November 6, 1998. Gingrich played a key role in several government shutdowns, and impeached President Bill Clinton on a party-line vote in the House. Īs House Speaker, Gingrich oversaw passage by the House of welfare reform and a capital gains tax cut in 1997. In 1995, Time named him ' Man of the Year' for 'his role in ending the four-decades-long Democratic majority in the House'.

A co-author and architect of the ' Contract with America', Gingrich was a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional election. He served as House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995.

House of Representatives in November 1978, the first Republican in the history of Georgia's 6th congressional district to do so. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.Ī professor of history and geography at the University of West Georgia in the 1970s, Gingrich won election to the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999.

A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Newton Leroy Gingrich ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ ŋ ɡ r ɪ tʃ/ né McPherson born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.

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