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==Legacy==
==Legacy==
Snyder died in mid-February 2007 at the age of seventy-nine; a family friend said of him:<ref>February 18, 2007. [https://www.presstelegram.com/2007/02/18/gene-snyder-ky-congressman/ Gene Snyder, Ky. congressman]. ''Associated Pres'' via ''Press-Telegram''. Retrieved November 6, 2021.</ref>
Snyder died in mid-February 2007 at the age of seventy-nine; a family friend said of him:<ref name=press-telegram>February 18, 2007. [https://www.presstelegram.com/2007/02/18/gene-snyder-ky-congressman/ Gene Snyder, Ky. congressman]. ''Associated Press'' via ''Press-Telegram''. Retrieved November 6, 2021.</ref>
{{cquote|Kentucky lost a good friend. He brought a lot of improvements. He loved Kentucky. He was a great statesman.|||Joe Whittle}}
{{cquote|Kentucky lost a good friend. He brought a lot of improvements. He loved Kentucky. He was a great statesman.|||Joe Whittle}}
[[Mitch McConnell]], who Snyder was a mentor to, said of the U.S. representative:<ref name=press-telegram/>
{{cquote|I will always remember Gene as the man who gave me my first real opportunity in politics. In the summer of 1963 I served as an intern in his Capitol Hill office and I learned a lot from watching him work.|||Mitch McConnell}}
An expressway, the federal courthouse in Louisville, and a general aviation airport near Falmouth, Kentucky, are named in Snyder's honor.<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17967149/marion-eugene-snyder Marion Eugene “Gene” Snyder (1928-2007)] - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 9, 2021.</ref>
An expressway, the federal courthouse in Louisville, and a general aviation airport near Falmouth, Kentucky, are named in Snyder's honor.<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17967149/marion-eugene-snyder Marion Eugene “Gene” Snyder (1928-2007)] - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 9, 2021.</ref>