Gilbert Gude

Gilbert Gude (1975)

Gilbert Gude (born March 9, 1923 in Washington, DC , †  June 7, 2007 there ) was an American politician . Between 1967 and 1977 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gilbert Gude attended public schools in Rockville and Washington. During the Second World War he served in the US Army medical service in the Pacific . He then studied at the University of Maryland , Cornell University and then until 1958 at George Washington University . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1952 he was a delegate to their regional party conference in Maryland. Between 1953 and 1958 he was a member of the Maryland House of Representatives . In 1958 he was elected to the Republican State Bureau. From 1962 to 1968 Gude was a member of the Maryland Senate . In August 1968 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , where Richard Nixon was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1966 congressional election , Gude was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the eighth constituency of Maryland, where he took up a new mandate on January 3, 1967. After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1977 . During this time, among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair fell . In 1972 Gilbert Gude was a congress observer at a UN conference in Stockholm . In 1976 he renounced another candidacy.

Between 1977 and 1985 he served as a director of the Library of Congress . He was also a member and, in the meantime, chairman of an advisory committee of the Interparliamentary Union in Geneva . Gilbert Gude died in Washington on June 7, 2007.

Web links

• Gilbert Gude in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gilbert Gude in the database of Find a Grave (English)