Gilbert Gude

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

Career

Gilbert Gude attended the public schools in Rockville and Washington. During the Second World War he served in the Pacific in the medical service of the U.S. Army. He then studied at the University of Maryland, Cornell University and then to 1958 at the George Washington University. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1952 he was a delegate to the regional convention in Maryland. Between 1953 and 1958 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1958 he was elected to the State Board of Republicans. From 1962 to 1968 Gude was a member of the Senate of Maryland. In August 1968 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, was nominated for the Richard Nixon as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1966 Gude was selected in the eighth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he had accepted a new mandate on January 3, 1967. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1977 five legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. 1972 Gilbert Gude was an observer of Congress in a UN conference in Stockholm. In 1976 he gave up another candidacy.

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