Gary Adrian Condit was born on April 21,1948 and is an American former politician who represented California's 18th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003.
21 Facts About Gary Condit
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Gary Condit gained significant national attention for an extramarital affair with Chandra Levy, an intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Gary Condit was born in Salina, Oklahoma, on April 21,1948, the son of Velma Jean Condit and Adrian Burl Condit, a Baptist minister.
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Gary Condit was raised and educated in Oklahoma, and graduated from Tulsa's Nathan Hale High School.
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An investigation by journalists in 2001 revealed that Gary Condit provided the wrong birth date for his marriage license.
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At the time, Oklahoma required males under age 21 to have parental consent to marry; by claiming to have been born in 1942 rather than 1948, Gary Condit appeared to be older than 18.
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In 1967, Gary Condit's father became pastor of a Baptist church in Ceres, California, near Modesto, causing his family to relocate there.
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Gary Condit began attendance at Modesto Junior College and received an Associate of Arts degree in 1970.
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Gary Condit served on the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1982, and was elected to the California State Assembly in 1982.
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Peace co-wrote and produced the 1988 film Return of the Killer Tomatoes, in which Gary Condit appeared in an uncredited, nonspeaking cameo during a fight sequence.
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Gary Condit was elected to Congress in 1989 in a special election after the resignation of House Democratic Whip Tony Coelho.
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Gary Condit was elected to a full term in 1990, and reelected five more times without serious difficulty.
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In 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Gary Condit publicly demanded that Clinton "come clean" on his relationship with the young woman; a video of this demand was aired almost daily during Gary Condit's own scandal involving a relationship with Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy.
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On December 7,2001, Gary Condit announced he would run for re-election.
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Gary Condit lost the Democratic primary election in March 2002 to his former aide, then-Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza, and left Congress at the end of his term in January 2003.
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In 2001, Gary Condit became the subject of national news coverage after the disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young woman working as a Washington, DC intern, originally from Gary Condit's district.
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Gary Condit's reputation suffered from the contrast between his "pro-family" politics, his adultery with a woman younger than his daughter, and his attempts to mislead the police regarding his affair.
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In late 2002, Gary Condit sued writer Dominick Dunne of Vanity Fair for $11 million, claiming that Dunne defamed him by suggesting he ordered Levy killed in 2001.
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Subsequently, Gary Condit sued Dunne again, charging him with "revivifying" the slander in an appearance on CNN's Larry King Live in November 2005.
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Years later, Gary Condit publicly denied ever having an affair with Chandra Levy.
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Gary Condit lost in the top-two election against incumbent Jeff Denham and Democratic challenger Jose Hernandez.