US Congressman. He was born in Washington, D.C. to Adolph Elbert Gude and Inez Ellen Gude, and he had a brother named Adolph. He was educated in local common public schools in Rockville, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., and later attended the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree and finally George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where he received his Master's Degree for Public Administration in 1958. During World War II, he served in the Pacific Theater with the United States Army Medical Department from 1943 to 1946. Following his military service, he decided to enter public service and was elected as a Member of the Maryland State House of Delegates serving in that position from 1953 to 1958. He also served as a Member of the Republican State Central Committee in 1958, and upon his being elected in 1962, he was a Member of the Maryland State Senate serving in that position from 1963 to 1967. While serving in the United States Senate he helped to sponsor the legislature that led to the building of the Washington, D.C. Metro system, he helped in efforts to save the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and to create the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, as well as supporting Washington, D.C. home rule (is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens). He also served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Maryland in 1968, and again in 1972, and as a Congressional Observer at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from June 5, 1972, to June 16, 1972. A Republican, he then served Maryland's 8th District (Ninetieth and to the four succeeding Congresses) in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1977. He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-Fifth Congress in 1976. While serving in the United States Congress he voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 1970, he defeated the United States Representative Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., later a prominent lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and the son of his colleague, United States Representative Hale Boggs and then Lindy Boggs of Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. During his time in the United States Congress he had also served on several committees or organizations including 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, the House District of Columbia Committee and its Commerce, Housing and Transportation Subcommittee, and as Member and Chairman of the Consultative Committee of Experts, International Centre for Parliamentary Documentation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union of Geneva, Switzerland. After his term in the United States Congress expired on January 3, 1977, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Newton Ivan Steers Jr. He lastly served as the Director of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service from 1977 to 1985. He at some point in his life married Jane W. Callahan and they had four children (Adrienne, Daniel, Sharon, Brett and Gregory). He passed away at the Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., from congestive heart failure at the age of 84. After his funeral, he was laid to rest in the New Saint Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. His wife Jane passed away on March 24, 2008, at the age of 84, and she was buried with her husband.