# John Boehner **John Boehner** (b. 1949) was Speaker of the U.S. House from 2011 to 2015 and an Ohio congressman from 1991. He is in this vault as the **first establishment Republican leader destroyed by his own party's insurgent wing** — driven from the speakership in 2015 by the Freedom Caucus, the [[Tea Party Movement]]'s congressional expression, after repeated shutdown and debt-ceiling confrontations he could neither win nor prevent. The pattern he established is the one [[Paul Ryan]] then repeated: a leader whose authority depends on a coalition that has concluded governing is itself the betrayal. Boehner has been unusually blunt about it since leaving, describing much of the caucus that replaced him in terms no sitting member would use. > [!note] Stub — fill out > To expand: the 2010 wave and the speakership, the debt-ceiling and shutdown fights, the Freedom Caucus revolt and the 2015 resignation, his post-Congress lobbying and cannabis-industry board work, and the *On the House* memoir. ## See Also - [[Paul Ryan]] — his successor, who inherited the same problem - [[Tea Party Movement]] — the insurgency - [[Republican Party]]