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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Marion Eugene "Gene" Snyder
| image=Gene Snyder of KY.jpg
[ office=[[U.S. Representative]] for [[Kentucky]]'s 4th congressional district
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 3, 1967
| term_end=January 3, 1987
| preceded=Frank Chelf
| succeeded=[[Jim Bunning]]
| office2=U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district
| term_start2=January 3, 1963
| term_end2=January 3, 1965
| preceded2=Frank W. Burke
| succeeded2=Charles R. Farnsley
| birth_date=January 26, 1928
| birth_place=[[Louisville]], Kentucky
| death_date=February 16, 2007 (aged 79)
| death_place=Naples, [[Florida]]
| resting_place=Floydsburg Cemetery in Crestwood in Oldham County, Kentucky
| spouse=Patricia Creighton Snyder (born 1930)
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| residence=Oldham County, Kentucky
| alma_mater=[[University of Louisville]] <br />[[Louis D. Brandeis]] School of Law
}}
'''Marion Eugene Snyder''' (January 26, 1928 – February 16, 2007<ref>"Former Congressman Gene Snyder die," ''The Louisville CouriJourna,
February 16, 2007.</ref> an [[attorney]], [[farmer]], and construction [[business]]man who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from adjoining districts in his native [[Kentucky]].
Born in [[Louisville]], he graduated from duPont Manual High School, studied at the [[University of Louisville]], and graduated from the [[Louis D. Brandeis]] School of Law. He launched his law practice in Louisville in 1950. Four years later, he became the city attorney in Jeffersontown in populous Jefferson County. In 1957, he was elected to the first of two terms as the magistrate for the First District of the Jefferson County government.
In 1962, he was elected to fill the Louisville-based 3rd congressional district. In his first term, he was one of the few House Republicans who voted against passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us]] Frank Chelf./congress/votes/88-1964/h128|title=H.R. 7152. PASSAGE.}}</ref> Later that year, Snyder, a [[Barry Goldwater]] supporter, was unseated by former Louisville Mayor Charles R. "Charlie" Farnsley in the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] presidential landslide.
He then moved to [[suburb]]an Oldham County and in 1966 mounted a successful campaign for the 4th congressional district by unseating 11-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Representative Frank Chelf. Back in Congress, he voted for the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]], which forbids racial discrimination in housing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1967/h113|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO ESTABLISH PENALTIES FOR INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS. INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON ENGAGED IN ONE OF THE 8 ACTIVITIES PROTECTED UNDER THIS BILL MUST BE RACIALLY MOTIVATED TO INCUR THE BILL'S PENALTIES.}}</ref>
By that time, the 4th district was rapidly trending Republican because of an influx of new residents from [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]. The district absorbed most of the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati metro area in the 1960s round of redistricting. He took full advantage of this trend and defeated Chelf by almost eight points. Until 1984, he was re-elected. However, he faced a strong Democratic opponent to the seat from Pat Mulloy, who almost won despite the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidential landslide. Rather than face Mulloy again in 1986, Snyder chose not to seek his own eleventh term in the House. The seat then went to the Republican [[Jim Bunning]], a former Major League Baseball player, who in 1983 had been the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee against Democrat Martha Layne Collins.
An expressway and the federal courthouse in Louisville are named in Snyder's honor/<ref>Marion Eugene “Gene” Snyder (1928-2007) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 9, 2021.</ref>
| name=Marion Eugene "Gene" Snyder
| image=Gene Snyder of KY.jpg
[ office=[[U.S. Representative]] for [[Kentucky]]'s 4th congressional district
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=January 3, 1967
| term_end=January 3, 1987
| preceded=Frank Chelf
| succeeded=[[Jim Bunning]]
| office2=U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district
| term_start2=January 3, 1963
| term_end2=January 3, 1965
| preceded2=Frank W. Burke
| succeeded2=Charles R. Farnsley
| birth_date=January 26, 1928
| birth_place=[[Louisville]], Kentucky
| death_date=February 16, 2007 (aged 79)
| death_place=Naples, [[Florida]]
| resting_place=Floydsburg Cemetery in Crestwood in Oldham County, Kentucky
| spouse=Patricia Creighton Snyder (born 1930)
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| residence=Oldham County, Kentucky
| alma_mater=[[University of Louisville]] <br />[[Louis D. Brandeis]] School of Law
}}
'''Marion Eugene Snyder''' (January 26, 1928 – February 16, 2007<ref>"Former Congressman Gene Snyder die," ''The Louisville CouriJourna,
February 16, 2007.</ref> an [[attorney]], [[farmer]], and construction [[business]]man who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from adjoining districts in his native [[Kentucky]].
Born in [[Louisville]], he graduated from duPont Manual High School, studied at the [[University of Louisville]], and graduated from the [[Louis D. Brandeis]] School of Law. He launched his law practice in Louisville in 1950. Four years later, he became the city attorney in Jeffersontown in populous Jefferson County. In 1957, he was elected to the first of two terms as the magistrate for the First District of the Jefferson County government.
In 1962, he was elected to fill the Louisville-based 3rd congressional district. In his first term, he was one of the few House Republicans who voted against passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us]] Frank Chelf./congress/votes/88-1964/h128|title=H.R. 7152. PASSAGE.}}</ref> Later that year, Snyder, a [[Barry Goldwater]] supporter, was unseated by former Louisville Mayor Charles R. "Charlie" Farnsley in the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] presidential landslide.
He then moved to [[suburb]]an Oldham County and in 1966 mounted a successful campaign for the 4th congressional district by unseating 11-term [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Representative Frank Chelf. Back in Congress, he voted for the [[Civil Rights Act of 1968]], which forbids racial discrimination in housing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1967/h113|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO ESTABLISH PENALTIES FOR INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS. INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON ENGAGED IN ONE OF THE 8 ACTIVITIES PROTECTED UNDER THIS BILL MUST BE RACIALLY MOTIVATED TO INCUR THE BILL'S PENALTIES.}}</ref>
By that time, the 4th district was rapidly trending Republican because of an influx of new residents from [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]. The district absorbed most of the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati metro area in the 1960s round of redistricting. He took full advantage of this trend and defeated Chelf by almost eight points. Until 1984, he was re-elected. However, he faced a strong Democratic opponent to the seat from Pat Mulloy, who almost won despite the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidential landslide. Rather than face Mulloy again in 1986, Snyder chose not to seek his own eleventh term in the House. The seat then went to the Republican [[Jim Bunning]], a former Major League Baseball player, who in 1983 had been the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee against Democrat Martha Layne Collins.
An expressway and the federal courthouse in Louisville are named in Snyder's honor/<ref>Marion Eugene “Gene” Snyder (1928-2007) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 9, 2021.</ref>