Gene Snyder
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Frank Chelf |
| Succeeded by | Jim Bunning |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 3rd district |
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In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965 |
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| Preceded by | Frank W. Burke |
| Succeeded by | Charles R. Farnsley |
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January 26, 1928 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Died | February 16, 2007 (aged 79) Naples, Florida |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater |
University of Louisville Jefferson School of Law |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod |
Marion Eugene Snyder, known as Gene Snyder (January 26, 1928 – February 16, 2007) was an American politician elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from two different districts in his native Kentucky.
Snyder was born in Louisville and attended public schools there, having graduated from duPont Manual High School. He studied at the University of Louisville and graduated from the Jefferson School of Law. He began a career as a lawyer in Louisville in 1950. In 1954, he became the city attorney in Jeffersontown, a post that he held for some four years. Snyder was elected as the magistrate for the first district of Jefferson County in the fall of 1957 and was re-elected in 1961. He also had several business interests in farming, real estate, insurance, and construction.
Snyder was elected to the House of Representatives from Kentucky's 3rd congressional district, based in Louisville, in 1962. He was one of the few Republicans to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A Barry M. Goldwater supporter, he was unseated in 1964 after only one term by former Louisville Mayor Charlie Farnsley, amid the gigantic Lyndon B. Johnson-Hubert H. Humphrey Democratic landslide that year.
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