Jack Kingston
| Jack Kingston | |
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| Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference | |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Leader | Dennis Hastert |
| Preceded by | Deborah Pryce |
| Succeeded by | Kay Granger |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 1st district |
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In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Lindsay Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Buddy Carter |
| Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 153rd district |
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In office January 1985 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Bobby Phillips |
| Succeeded by | Eric Johnson |
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John Heddens Kingston April 24, 1955 Bryan, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Libby Morris |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Georgia (BA) |
John Heddens "Jack" Kingston (born April 24, 1955) is the former U.S. Representative for Georgia's 1st congressional district in Southeast Georgia, serving from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the House leadership (2002–06) when he served as vice-chair of the Republican Conference. In 2014, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by retiring Senator Saxby Chambliss and advanced beyond the May 20 primary to the July 22 runoff, where he was defeated by David Perdue. He currently works as a public policy principal at the firm of Squire Patton Boggs in Washington. Since August 2015 he has been Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party Foundation, the fundraising arm of the Georgia GOP. In 2016, he endorsed Ted Cruz for president, but later he served as a senior advisor and spokesperson for the Donald Trump campaign.
Kingston was born on April 24, 1955, in Bryan, Texas. He is the son of Martha Ann (née Heddens) and Albert James Kingston, Jr., a widely published University professor who co-founded the National Reading Conference. His father was born in Brooklyn, New York, and his mother in Los Angeles, California. As a child, Kingston lived briefly in Ethiopia. He grew up in Athens, Georgia. Kingston received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics from the University of Georgia in 1978, where he also joined Lambda Chi Alpha and the Demosthenian Literary Society. He has lived in Savannah since 1977 and sold insurance and worked in agribusiness throughout southeastern Georgia before entering politics in 1982. He was vice president of Palmer, Cay and Carswell from 1979–1992.
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