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Newt Gingrich Through the Years

By Ethan Klapper

Updated: May 29, 2013 | 5:19 p.m.
March 1, 2011 | 2:08 p.m.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will announce he is taking a formal step towards a run for the White House this week. Click through the gallery to learn about Gingrich's career before, during, and after his time in Congress.

It Begins...

  (Duricka/AP)

Gingrich meets with reporters in Washington on March 1, 1979. Gingrich joined Congress that January as a freshman Republican from Georgia. He came to the Hill from academia, working as an assistant professor of history at what was then West Georgia College.


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