Gingrich has been married three times. He married his first wife, Jackie Battley (born 1936), who was also his former high school geometry teacher, on June 19, 1962. They divorced nearly nineteen years later in 1980. They were blessed with two daughters, Kathleen and Jacqueline.
Gingrich married his second wife, Marianne Ginther (born 1958) on August 8, 1981. The couple separated in June 1987, but reconciled seven years later. The marriage lasted another six years before Gingrich filed for divorce on July 29, 1999. Gingrich remarried the following summer with his former Congressional aide, Callista Bisek (born 1966), on August 18, 2000.
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