Bud Shuster
| Bud Shuster | |
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| Chairman of the House Transportation Committee | |
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In office January 4, 1995 – January 3, 2001 |
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| Speaker |
Newt Gingrich Dennis Hastert |
| Preceded by | Norman Mineta |
| Succeeded by | Don Young |
| Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee | |
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In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Leader | John Jacob Rhodes |
| Preceded by | Del M. Clawson |
| Succeeded by | Dick Cheney |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 9th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 - February 3, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | John H. Ware III |
| Succeeded by | Bill Shuster |
| Personal details | |
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Elmer Greinert Shuster January 23, 1932 Glassport, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | H. Patricia Rommel |
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Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster (born January 23, 1932) is an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1973 to 2001. He is best known for his advocacy of transportation projects.
Shuster was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Glassport, Pennsylvania, the son of Grace (née Greinert) and Prather Leroy Shuster. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954, where he became a member of Sigma Chi, an M.B.A. from Duquesne University in 1960, and a Ph.D. from American University in 1967. Shuster's official congressional biography states that he served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. However, he was the author of several books, one of which was titled Believing in America published in 1983. In this book Shuster states that he was the class president at the University of Pittsburgh and was recruited by the local CIA office on campus and that this was his actual first employment. Shuster describes his role as that of infiltrating civil rights groups eerily similar to COINTELPRO operations of the FBI. Shuster claimed that communist groups were penetrating the civil rights movement to provoke the police into attacking the demonstrators who were marching for equal rights for African-Americans. He claimed communists did this to embarrass the United States in front of the world. His book completely contradicts his later claims to have been in the military. After leaving behind college and military life, Shuster entered the business world. He became a vice-president at RCA, and he made a fortune when he started his own computer business. In 1972, he defeated popular state senator D. Elmer Hawbaker of Mercersburg in the Republican primary for Congress and was elected that November.
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