John Boehner
Former US House Speaker
John Boehner is an American politician who served as Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. He is the author of On the House.
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American Born 1949 in Reading, United States
About John Boehner
John Boehner was born on November 17, 1949, in Reading, Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio's 8th congressional district, which covered rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton, from 1991 to 2015. He was House majority leader from 2006 to 2007 and minority leader from 2007 to 2011. He became the 53rd Speaker of the House in January 2011 and was re-elected twice. He resigned from Congress in October 2015. In 2016, the lobbying firm Squire Patton Boggs announced that he would join it, and that he would also join the board of Reynolds American. His book in our catalog is On the House.