Newt Gingrich (HSE)

Newton Leroy Gingrich is a politician in the Confederate States of America who served as Secretary of State under Mike Huckabee during the Fourth World War.

Gingrich was one of the founders of the Independence Party who met in Charleston, South Carolina to oppose Gary Bauer's cooperation with the Soviet Union in the Soviet Invasion of the Middle East.

Shortly after Huckabee's election in 2004, Gingrich assumed the office of Confederate Secretary of State, succeeding William J. Burns. After the outbreak of the Fourth World War, Gingrich worked to cement alliances with other Post-Union States and countries in Western Europe.

Gingrich found no shortage in assistance from Europe. Gingrich maintained cordial relations with its allies in the War, finding pledges of support in Nick Griffing, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, Roberto Fiore, and others. Gingrich attempted to persuade Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to join the war, but to no avail; those countries remained neutral.

In 2010, with the Confederacy soundly beaten in the war, Gingrich tried to appeal to a ravaged Confederacy to elect him, as the Independence Party candidate, to replace (now dead) Huckabee's Vice President, Robert J. Bentley. However, a war-weary Confederate population refused to elect Gingrich, fearing he would repeat the Vicious Cycle, electing Jim Folsom Jr. to the Presidency instead.