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Gingrich, an orphan, has been married three times. His first wife, Jackie Battley, was his geometry teacher while he was in high school. They began their relationship when he was 16 years old, and married in 1962 after he graduated.<ref name="poli">[http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Georgia/Newt_Gingrich/Scandals/Marital_Affairs/ Newt Gingrich: Marital Affairs] poligu.com, retrieved January 22, 2012.</ref> The couple had two daughters, and divorced in 1981. Liberal and mainstream media sources have perpetuated a myth for years Jackie was served with divorce papers "on her deatbed", however, she is very much alive.

Gingrich has been married three times. His first wife, Jackie Battley, was his geometry teacher while he was in high school. They began their relationship when he was 16 years old, and married in 1962 after he graduated.<ref name="poli">[http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Georgia/Newt_Gingrich/Scandals/Marital_Affairs/ Newt Gingrich: Marital Affairs] poligu.com, retrieved January 22, 2012.</ref> The couple had two daughters, and divorced in 1981, a year after he began having an affair with Marianne Ginther, whom he had met at a political fundraiser in Washington, D.C.<ref name="poli"/> Court records show that Gingrich was the one who filed for the divorce, and that his estranged wife had to appeal to the court for financial support for the family during the separation.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/politics/gingrich-divorce-file/index.html Newly recovered court files cast doubt on Gingrich version of first divorce] Duke, Alan, cnn.com, December 27, 2011, retrieved January 22, 2012.</ref> Gingrich was back in court in 1993 when his ex-wife filed papers asking, "this court issue an order directing the sheriff of Carroll County, state of Georgia, to arrest and seize the defendant and incarcerate him in the common jail until said individual complies fully and completely with this court's final judgment."<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-25/opinion/op-12904_1_family-values Gingrich Puts a Price on His Family Values:He sheltered his $4-million book bonanza from his struggling, non-trophy ex-wife.] Scheer, Robert, ''L.A. Times'', December 25, 1994, retrieved January 22, 2012.</ref>

Gingrich married Ginther in 1981. The couple separated in 1988, and reconciled in 1994, around the time Gingrich began a six-year-long affair with Callista Bisek, then a 28-year-old congressional aide.  

Gingrich married Ginther in 1981. The couple separated in 1988, and reconciled in 1994, around the time Gingrich began a six-year-long affair with Callista Bisek, then a 28-year-old congressional aide.