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Speaker: 
A Town Hall Meeting with Newt Gingrich
 
30 Sep 2011
 
11:00 AM
 
Campanile Room, Memorial Union

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Newt Gingrich was elected to Congress in 1978 and served the Sixth District of Georgia for twenty years. He was the architect of the "Contract With America," leading the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in forty years. In 1995 he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and led the first re-elected Republican majority since 1928. He left the House in 1999. As an author, Gingrich has published twenty four books, including eleven New York Times best-sellers. Gingrich received his bachelor's degree from Emory University and a master's and doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series.

The series provides the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates before the precinct caucuses.

[b]2012 Iowa State University Presidential Caucus Series[/b] Since 1987, the series has provided students, faculty, and community members from around central Iowa with an opportunity to question presidential candidates, or appropriate surrogates, before the precinct caucuses and the November election that follows. The series is sponsored by the University Committee on Lectures, the ISU Democrats, College Republicans, and the Government of the Student Body, and administered by the Lectures Program Office.