Representative, United States House of Representatives, 1990-2008

Republican Candidate, United States House of Representatives, 1988

Co-Chair, Army Corps Reform Caucus

Co-Chair, Bipartisan Ocean's Caucus

Chair, Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force

Experience, Congressional Biotechnology Caucus

Experience, Congressional Caucus on Unfunded Mandates

Co-Chair, Congressional Climate Change Caucus

Experience, Congressional Education Caucus

Experience, Congressional Fire Services Caucus

Experience, Congressional Naval Mine Warfare Caucus

Experience, Congressional Rural Caucus

Experience, Congressional Soybean Caucus

Experience, Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus

Experience, Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus

Experience, Congressional Vietnam-Era Veterans Caucus

Experience, Farmland Protection Caucus

Co-Chair, House Climate Change Caucus

Co-Chair, House Corps Reform Caucus

Experience, House Dialogue Caucus

Co-Chair, House Organic Caucus

Co-Chair, House Rural Health Care Coalition

Co-Chair, Sustainable Development Caucus

Government and American History Teacher, Kent County High School

Forest Service, 1986

Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, Vietnam, 1964-1968

Experience, American Legion

Experience, Kent County Teachers Association

Experience, Navy League

Experience, Order of the Purple Heart

Experience, Veterans of Foreign Wars

Astrological Sign:

Aries

Father's Name:

Arthur Gilchrest

Mother's Name:

Elizabeth Gilchrest