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John Henry Newman
Why I’m Running
Quite simply, the behavior of our present representative, Scott Perry, offends me. Most upsetting were his actions after the 2020 election. He tried to erase the votes of his own constituents in the 10th Congressional District and invalidate the choice of all the voters in Pennsylvania. He continues to make inaccurate and misleading statements. And, for the past two years, he has been leading an extremist faction in the US House of Representatives. Misleading us is not leadership.
What I most hope to
accomplish in the US Congress:
Issues
Constituent Service
Business & Economic Development
Education
Homelessness & Mental Illness
My stands on
big-picture issues:
- Budgets are needed not continuing resolutions.
- Government must not shut down.
- Russian aggression is an existential threat to Western Civilization.
- 2nd Amendment rights can be balanced with public safety.
Learn More About John
In 2003, John Henry Newman left higher education to become an entrepreneur, contractor, and then employee of the Federal government. First, he found work as Principal Evaluator of the US Regional Education Laboratory in Denver. Subsequently, the small business he founded in 2006 (to promote advanced learning technology) struggled-on for two years after the great recession, before closing in 2010. Since then, he has served as Director of Training Evaluation at FEMA’s US National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD, and, as Scientific Review Officer for the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, MD. At NIH, he oversaw the “quality control” of projects proposed for STEM education and for small business innovation research in risk, prevention, and health behavior. He is currently consulting for screenwriters, serving on the board of a foundation, and running for Congress.
John Henry Newman registered to vote in Pennsylvania, as a Republican, during the Spring of 1973. It was his last year in high school. Inspired by the novel “Advise and Consent” and encouraged by a letter from Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-PA), he finished his senior classes 6-weeks early to intern with the local Chester County Government. He spent one-week in each of six departments and was hired for the summer by the Juvenile Probation Office.
In the following fall, John Henry Newman entered college thinking to major in political science but his interests in (what we now call) behavioral economics and artificial intelligence switched his direction into psychology. Freshman year, with thoughts of being an astronaut, he had joined Air Force ROTC. After six weeks of Officer’s Field Training Camp, junior year he became a pilot-cadet lieutenant, but the post-Vietnam military budget and the gas crisis initiated a reduction in force. It was then that he became active in the Party as Vice President of the Allegheny College Young Republicans and worked to elect John Heinz to the US Senate in 1977. He graduated with a bachelor degree the following year.
Before furthering his education, John Henry Newman worked for two years as a medical technologist in Philadelphia, where he continued his collegiate sport of fencing at the Salle Csiszar Fencing Club on the UPenn campus. The effort qualified him as a competitor in the US National Individual Foil Championships (see photo.) Returning for graduate school at Penn State, in the 1980’s he studied lifespan changes in thinking and consulted for the staff of the US House Select Committee on Aging. For seven years, at Penn State, he was also a volunteer assistant coach of the Penn State Varsity Fencing Teams (12-time NCAA Team Champions in two decades) and pursued a hobby in photography.
In the following fall, John Henry Newman entered college thinking to major in political science but his interests in (what we now call) behavioral economics and artificial intelligence switched his direction into psychology. Freshman year, with thoughts of being an astronaut, he had joined Air Force ROTC. After six weeks of Officer’s Field Training Camp, junior year he became a pilot-cadet lieutenant, but the post-Vietnam military budget and the gas crisis initiated a reduction in force. It was then that he became active in the Party as Vice President of the Allegheny College Young Republicans and worked to elect John Heinz to the US Senate in 1977. He graduated with a bachelor degree the following year.
Before furthering his education, John Henry Newman worked for two years as a medical technologist in Philadelphia, where he continued his collegiate sport of fencing at the Salle Csiszar Fencing Club on the UPenn campus. The effort qualified him as a competitor in the US National Individual Foil Championships (see photo.) Returning for graduate school at Penn State, in the 1980’s he studied lifespan changes in thinking and consulted for the staff of the US House Select Committee on Aging. For seven years, at Penn State, he was also a volunteer assistant coach of the Penn State Varsity Fencing Teams (12-time NCAA Team Champions in two decades) and pursued a hobby in photography.
John Henry Newman came to Pennsylvania in 1961; his father was posted to command a unit of the Valley Forge Military Hospital at the end of the Eisenhower administration. (Pictured here with his parents, Nancy Jane and Maj. Richard Newman, M.D., and two of three younger brothers.) Since then, he has lived, studied, and worked in 9 Pennsylvania counties (Adams, Berks, Blair, Centre, Chester, Crawford, Cumberland, Lancaster, and Philadelphia.) His fondest memories of childhood are of being a cub scout (photo) and learning marksmanship at YMCA summer camp.
During his career, John Henry Newman has been a teacher, administrator, and scientist at two colleges in Pennsylvania and universities around the Nation, including Southern Cal, Northwestern, and MIT. During this time, he was asked to give talks and consult in England, Japan, Germany, and Russia. His scientific research investigated hybrid education, instructional strategies that work, and different styles of reasoning, decision-making, and value judgment in highly divisive problems. His expertise resulted in selection as a “Sloan Catalyst Scientist” by the American Film Institute and he received a Presidential Citation from his professional society as an agent-of-change and leader in science education.
