Former U.S. Congressman

Mark Souder

1 article 2012

Mark Souder is a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2010. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2012, writing a defense of Newt Gingrich's departure from the speakership during the Republican presidential primary season.

Newt Did Not Resign in Disgrace

February 3, 2012 · Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, 2012 Elections

Newt Gingrich was hardly a perfect speaker of the House, but he did not resign in “disgrace” as has been repeatedly claimed by Mitt Romney. I say this as a former member of Congress who was part of both the “coup attempt” against him and the subsequent successful effort to remove him as speaker…