I’m a Pennsylvanian and voting for my homegrown Yank Newt. ;)
Newton Leroy McPherson was born at the Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943. His mother, Kathleen “Kit” McPherson (née Daugherty; 1925–2003), and father, Newton Searles McPherson (1923–1970),[citation needed] married in September 1942, when she was 16 and McPherson was 19. The marriage fell apart within days.
In 1946, his mother married her step-brother, Army officer Robert Gingrich (1925–1996), who adopted Newt.[11]
Gingrich was raised in Hummelstown (near Harrisburg) and on military bases where Robert Gingrich was stationed.
In 1961, Gingrich graduated from Baker High School in Columbus, Georgia.
Sooo...Newt’s either Irish/Scot, or both. Newton McPherson sounds like it matches better than Newton Gingrich. Wondered what his parents were thinking. LOL
That’s interesting. Thanks for the bio.