Gerry E. Studds

A Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Mineola, Nassau County, N. Y. , May 12, 1937. Attended the public schools in Cohasset and Derby Academy in Hingham, Mass. B. A. , Yale University, New Haven, Conn. , 1959. M. A. T. , Yale University, New Haven, Conn. , 1961. Teacher, St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. Foreign service officer, United States Department of State, 1961-1962. Member, President John Kennedy's White House staff, 1962-1963. Legislative assistant to Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. , 1964. State Coordinator of United States Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential primary campaign, 1968. Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1968. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1997). Censured by the U. S. House of Representatives on July 20, 1983, for personal misconduct with a House Page. Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (One Hundred Third Congress). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996. Died on October 14, 2006, in Boston, Mass. Interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.