Wayne Gilchrest

Wayne Thomas Gilchrest ( born April 15, 1946 in Rahway, New Jersey) is an American politician. Between 1991 and 2009 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wayne Gilchrest attended until 1964 the Rahway High School. Thereafter he served 1964-1968 in the United States Marine Corps; while he has also been used in the Vietnam War. He was awarded for his achievements including the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. After his military service, he continued his studies until 1971 at Wesley College in Dover ( Delaware) away. Thereafter he attended until 1973 the Delaware State College in the same city. In the following years Gilchrest worked as a teacher. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1988, he ran unsuccessfully for even the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1990 was Gilchrest but then in the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Roy Dyson took on 3 January 1991, he had previously defeated in the election. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2009 nine legislative sessions. There he was a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Transport and infrastructure as well as in four sub-committees. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. Gilchrest was considered one of the most liberal republican deputies at all. This went so far that he sharply criticized in 2008, his party and the Democratic presidential candidates and subsequent election winner Barack Obama favored and finally chose. This was one reason that he was not nominated by his party for re-election. Later, he left the Republican Party.