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Newt Gingrich Through the Years

By Ethan Klapper

Updated: March 2, 2011 | 11:15 a.m.
March 1, 2011 | 2:08 p.m.

Mr. Speaker

  (J. DAVID AKE/AFP/Getty Images)

Gingrich was elected speaker of the House on January 4, 1995. Here he receives the speaker's gavel from House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo.


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