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Phil Gingrey, Republican

Current office: U.S. House

Birth place: Augusta, GA (07/10/1942)
Home city: Marietta, GA

Education: MD, Medical College of Georgia, 1969 BS, Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1965.

Profession: Marietta OB-GYN Affiliates, 1974-2000.

Political: Representative, United States House of Representatives, 2003-present Senator, Georgia State Senate, 1999-2002 Member, Marietta City School Board, 1993-1997.

Membership: Air Force Caucus Army Caucus Immigration Reform Caucus Marine Corps Caucus Co-Chair, Medical and Dental Doctors in Congress Caucus Navy Caucus Chair, Republican Healthcare Public Affairs Team Republican Study Committee Second Amendment Task Force Textile Caucus Washington Waste Watchers Victory in Iraq Caucus. Leadership Cobb, 1996 Focus Cobb, 1995 American Medical Association Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America Cobb County Medical Society Cobb County Republican Party Georgia OB-GYN Society Medical Association of Georgia Member, Youth Instructor, Saint Joseph Catholic Church.

First elected: 11/05/2002
Last elected: 11/04/2008
Next election: 2008

Family: Wife, Billie Ayers; 4 Children: Billy, Gannon, Phyllis, Laura Neill.


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Rep. Shuster’s dancing a highlight of Boehner bash

The Hill 7.27.09 2:18 PM | House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) hosted his annual “Boehner Beach Party” fundraiser Thursday at Cantina Marina and despite intermittent downpours, the...
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Out of jail, former Rep may run for Congress again

The Hill 7.13.09 2:30 PM | Former Rep. Frank Ballance (D-N.C.), who completed a nearly four-year federal prison sentence last month, was honored over the weekend at...
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Boy, 11, walks 59 days and 668 miles for homeless

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 7.10.09 11:20 PM | While most other 11-year-old kids are spending their summer vacation at swimming pools or playing video games, one young boy walked to bring awareness to youth homelessness. On Thursday, Zach...
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Swine flu vaccine should be ready in October

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 7.9.09 4:52 PM | Bethesda, Md. -- A vaccine for the swine flu virus should be ready by mid-October, and the government is preparing to launch a voluntary nationwide vaccination program immediately after that, U.S....
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Gingrey goes bare-chested

The Hill 7.8.09 12:37 PM | A shirtless Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) was seen on his hands and knees working in his Washington garden last weekend.
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Howard Dean: Rep. Gingrey ‘an embarrassment’

The Hill 6.10.09 2:14 PM | There were some serious fireworks on C-SPAN Wednesday as former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean went after two GOP lawmakers-cum-physicians.
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House GOP mulls life without Blunt

The Hill 5.20.09 3:29 PM | Rep. Roy Blunt’s (R-Mo.) decision to leave the House is starting to sink in.
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Georgia lawmakers push for their pet projects

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5.7.09 5:06 PM | In unveiling details of its $3.4 trillion budget plan on Thursday, the White House emphasized the elimination of more than $17 billion in government programs that it characterized as too expensive,...
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Number of F-22s insufficient, ex-Air Force chief says

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 4.30.09 10:57 PM | A former chief of the U.S. Air Force's combat operations told members of Congress Thursday that the Air Force needs more than double the number of Marietta-made F-22 Raptor fighter jets than the...
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Big fight on horizon over F-22 fighter jet

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 4.13.09 7:17 AM | Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week declared the F-22 Raptor, built in Marietta, dead. The Pentagon will buy only four more of the supersonic, super-expensive jets. The death knell had barely...
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