Gerry Studds
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 10th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Margaret Heckler |
| Succeeded by | Bill Delahunt |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 12th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Hastings Keith |
| Succeeded by | District eliminated |
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Gerry Eastman Studds May 12, 1937 Mineola, New York |
| Died | October 14, 2006 (aged 69) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Dean T. Hara (m. 2004) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
Gerry Eastman Studds (/ˈɡɛri/; May 12, 1937 – October 14, 2006) was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first openly gay member of Congress. In 1983 he was censured by the House of Representatives after he admitted to an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old page.
Gerry Studds, born in Mineola, New York, was a descendant of Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts who is commemorated in the word 'gerrymander'. The son of Elbridge Gerry Eastman Studds (an architect who helped design the FDR Drive in New York City) and his wife, the former Beatrice Murphy, he had a brother, Colin Studds, and a sister, Gaynor Studds (Stewart).
He attended Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, and from which he received a bachelor's degree in history in 1959 and a master's degree in 1961. Following graduation, Studds was a foreign service officer in the State Department and then an assistant in the Kennedy White House, where he worked to establish a domestic Peace Corps. Later, he became a teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1968, he played a key role in U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy's campaign in the New Hampshire presidential primary.
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