Newt Gingrich: Timeline

1943   Born

1994   Georgia Georgia (U.S. state)

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 Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives United States House of Representatives

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 and the Senate United States Senate

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 in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress. George W. Bush George W. Bush

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 is elected Governor of Texas.

1997   Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.