district predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place children party term_end birth_date term_start spouse image article_title state name alma_mater
8th '' ` district created '' ' newton steers 7 june 2007 washington , d.c washington , d.c 5 republican 3 january 1977 9 march 1923 3 january 1967 jane gilbert gude.jpg gilbert gude
 maryland gilbert gude university of maryland cornell university george washington university
gilbert gude

gilbert gude -lrb- march 9 , 1923 -- june 7 , 2007 -rrb- was a u.s. congressman who represented the maryland 's 8th congressional district from january 3 , 1967 , to january 3 , 1977 .
gude was born in washington , d.c. , and was educated in the public schools of rockville , maryland , and washington .
he attended the university of maryland , obtained his b.s. degree from cornell university in 1948 , and his m.a. degree from george washington university for public administration in 1958 .
he later taught history and environment courses at georgetown university and served on the board of trustees for the catholic university of america .
during world war ii , gude served in the pacific theater as a part of the united states army medical department from 1943 to 1946 .
after the war , gude was appointed to the maryland house of delegates in january 1953 , and was later elected to the house of delegates in 1954 , serving until 1958 .
he was elected to the republican state central committee in 1958 , and elected to the maryland state senate in 1962 , serving until 1967 .
gude accomplished numerous things while in office , including sponsoring legislation that led to the building of the washington metro system , leading efforts to save the chesapeake and ohio canal and create the chesapeake and ohio canal national historical park , and supporting d.c. home rule .
he was a delegate to the republican state convention in 1952 , and a delegate to the republican national convention in 1968 .
gude was elected as a republican to the 90th congress and to the four succeeding congresses , serving from january 3 , 1967 , until january 3 , 1977 , but was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the 95th congress .
in 1970 , he defeated the democrat thomas hale boggs , jr. , later a prominent lawyer and lobbyist in washington , d.c. , and the son of gude 's colleague , u.s. representative hale boggs and then lindy boggs of louisiana 's 2nd congressional district , based about new orleans .
during his tenure in congress , gude served on the government operations committee and its conservation , energy , and natural resources subcommittee ; the house environmental study ; the franklin delano roosevelt memorial commission ; the select committee on aging and its retirement income and employment subcommittee ; and the house district of columbia committee and its commerce , housing and transportation subcommittee .
gude was a congressional observer at the united nations conference on the human environment in stockholm , sweden , in 1972 , and later as director of the library of congress ' congressional research service from 1977 to 1985 .
gude served as a member and is former chairman of the consultative committee of experts , international centre for parliamentary documentation of the inter-parliamentary union of geneva .
gude died on june 7 , 2007 , from congestive heart failure in washington , d.c. .
he was survived by his widow , jane , five children -lrb- adrienne , daniel , sharon , brett and gregory -rrb- and three grandchildren -lrb- edward w. lewis iv , alexandra morgan lewis , and michael gude -rrb- .
