Mike Gallagher Biography
Michael Gallagher is an American politician who represents Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district in the United States Congress. He was elected in 2016 as a member of the Republican Party and assumed office on January 3, 2017.
How old is Mike Gallagher? – Age
He is 62 years old as of 7 April 2022. He was born in 1960 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
Mike Gallagher Family – Education
He went to Chaminade-Julienne High School in downtown Dayton, where he was involved in the school radio and TV station, drama (where he had lead roles throughout his four years there), band, and chorus. Gallagher was born in Ireland.
Mike Gallagher Wife
Denise, his wife, died of endometrial cancer one day before her 52nd birthday in 2008.
Mike Gallagher Beliefs
Following the 9/11 attacks, Gallagher was accused of bigotry and Islamophobia for suggesting that airports should have a “Muslims Only” line, arguing that it was time to establish a Muslims check-point line in America’s airports and for Muslims to be scrutinized.
Mike Gallagher Radio
Gallagher negotiated his way into an on-air shift at WAVI-AM in Dayton, Ohio, when he was a 17-year-old high school senior. He then went on to work for WFBC-AM in Greenville, South Carolina, where he finally became station manager. He then went on to work for WGY-AM in Albany, New York, as an on-air host. Gallagher then moved to New York City, where he worked as a morning drive host on WABC-AM for two years.
The Mike Gallagher Show debuted on 12 radio stations across the country in 1998. Gallagher was the sixth most popular talk radio broadcaster in America in early 2011, with over four million weekly listeners. He may be heard on the radio every day in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, as well as in small, medium, and large cities around the country. He is the eighth most-known talk radio host in America, according to the Benchmark Company. Gallagher has also been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Forbes, among other publications. Gallagher has been rated one of the top 100 most influential talk show hosts in America for eleven years in a row by Talkers Magazine.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former US President George W. Bush, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Republican presidential candidate John McCain during his 2008 election campaign, Vice President Dick Cheney while in office, and then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have all appeared on Gallagher’s show.
Mike Gallagher Books
Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America (2005, William Morrow; ISBN 0-06-073798-0), which he wrote in the summer of 2005, became a New York Times bestseller (#27 on the extended bestseller list). The New York Times examined the book’s writing “You may not agree with his ideas, but you have to like a man who slaughters a steer live on the radio only to anger the ideologues at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, then feeds the meat to the destitute. Checkmate. Gallagher fans will appreciate the book, and even liberal loons may find it entertaining just to play Spot the Inconsistencies.”
He revealed on his radio show that he was creating a book titled 50 Things Liberals Hate, which was released on August 28, 2012. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich gave the book a positive review, saying, “is intelligent, witty, and satirizes and mocks the left. A book like this would be written by Jon Stewart’s conservative authors.” Gallagher read from his new book at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on September 10, 2012.
Mike Gallagher Salary
He earns an annual salary of $1 million.
Mike Gallagher Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.