In 2008, the moderate Gilchrest was defeated in the Republican primary by State Senator Andy Harris.

Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Gilchrest was the fourth child of Elizabeth and Arthur Gilchrest's six boys.

Gilchrest was decorated with the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Navy Commendation Medal.

Gilchrest also spoke in favor of same-sex marriage while the Maryland Legislature was considering legalizing it, calling same-sex marriage a matter of " social justice, civil rights and a more viable democracy.

Gilchrest was ranked as the House's most liberal Republican in 2008 ( his final term ) by the National Journal, placing him to the left of 8 House Democrats.

On February 14, 2008, Rep. Jones was one of only three Republicans ( along with Ron Paul and Wayne Gilchrest ) to vote to hold George W. Bush confidantes Joshua Bolten and Harriet Miers in contempt of Congress for failing to testify and provide documents relevant to the firing of federal prosecutors.

Nine-term Republican congressman Wayne Gilchrest was defeated for his party's nomination in February 2008.

In the 1988 election, his Republican opponent was Wayne Gilchrest, a high school teacher who had never run for office before.

One of the Chamberlain's sons was Sir William More of Abercorn, and another was Gilchrest More.

For example, Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest pro-choice on the abortion issue was defeated by pro-life state senator Andy Harris in the Republican primary in 2008.

For example, Eve Fairbanks described right-wing opponents of moderate Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest as " Jacobin conservatives " in The New Republic.

Wayne Thomas Gilchrest ( born April 15, 1946 ) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who represented.

Gilchrest is a moderate Republican, and he broke ranks with his party more often than any other House member in 2007.

Gilchrest is a member of many moderate Republican groups such as the Republican Main Street Partnership, Republicans for Environmental Protection, and the Republican Majority For Choice.

That year, State Senator Andrew Harris, State Senator E. J. Pipkin, Joe Arminio, and Robert Banks challenged Gilchrest in the 2008 Republican primary.

Harris defeated Gilchrest in the Republican primary, with Pipkin finishing third.

Gilchrest said that the Republican party " has become more narrow, more self-serving, more centered around ' I want, I want, I want.

In July 2008, the first Republican cosponsor, Rep. Wayne Gilchrest ( R-MD ) signed on.

She lost in the Democratic Primary to Congressman Roy Dyson, who then lost to first time candidate Republican Wayne T. Gilchrest in the General election, who subsequently lost the Republican nomination in 2008.

Rep. Gilchrest ( second from left ) and others join President George W. Bush for the signing of the North American Wetlands Conservation Reauthorization Act.

Today there exist nine structures with recognized historical markers dating back to the 18th century, including the DeBaum House on Kings Highway, the Smith House on Gilchrest Road and the Snedeker House, where the Commander-in-chief George Washington is believed to have spent a night.

* On April 28, 2009, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter specifically mentioned the Club for Growth's previous activity in supporting conservative primary opponents against Republicans such as Wayne Gilchrest, Joe Schwarz, Lincoln Chafee and Heather Wilson, in his decision to run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.

While teaching at Kent County High School on the Eastern Shore, Gilchrest ran against four-term 1st District Democratic incumbent Roy Dyson in 1988.

Despite being badly outspent, Gilchrest nearly unseated Dyson, losing by only 460 votes.

Gilchrest won by only 3 %, largely by swamping McMillen on the Eastern Shore.

Aside from his socially moderate stance, Gilchrest has drawn attention for his stance on the Iraq War.

Gilchrest also joined 16 Republicans and 229 Democrats voting in favor of House Concurrent Resolution ( H. CON. RES ) 63, a non-binding resolution expressing disapproval for the Iraq War troop surge of 2007.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

There was no doubt as to the control the Republican party exercised throughout the state.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

The result was a landslide for the Republican candidates.

One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.

The Republicans some weeks ago served notice through Senator Thruston B. Morton ( R ) of Kentucky, chairman of the Republican National Committee, that the Kennedy administration would be held responsible if the outcome in Laos was a coalition government susceptible of Communist domination.

Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.

The former secretary of labor said he was proud to be an Eisenhower Republican `` and proud to have absorbed his philosophy '' while working in his adminstration.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.

" Drawing on remnants of the old Whig party, and on disenchanted Free Soil, Liberty, and Democratic party members, he was instrumental in forging the shape of the new Republican Party.

In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper which was consistently supportive ; most of the state's 130, 000 German Americans voted Democratic but there was Republican support that a German-language paper could mobilize.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

He was the first president from the Republican Party.