Newt Gingrich, was the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.
He is chairman of the Gingrich Group, a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change, with offices in Atlanta and Washington. He serves as general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future (www.americansolutions.com), is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. and is an honorary chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance. Gingrich is also a news and political analyst for the Fox News Channel.

Gingrich was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the 6th District of Georgia for twenty years. In 1995, he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served until 1999. The Washington Times has called him “the indispensable leader” and Time magazine, in naming him Man of the Year for 1995, said, “Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.”

His experiences as the son of a career soldier convinced him at an early age to dedicate his life to his country and to the protection of freedom. He received his bachelor’s degree from Emory University and master’s and doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University . Before his election to Congress, he taught history and environmental studies at West Georgia College for eight years.

He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista. The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren.