Jude, Thaddeus "Tad"

Spouse: Single (when first elected); Married (listed in 1981); Single (listed in 1983); Gail (first listed in 1987)
Children:
Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature:
Victor N. Jude  - Father

Special Legislative Concerns: judiciary legislation, taxes.

Thaddeus "Tad" Jude was the youngest person elected to the Minnesota Legislature. When he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1972 he was 20 years old and turned 21 in December before being sworn in to office in January 1973. (Members were required to be 21 at this time.) He replaced Carl Mario D'Aquila who was 22 when elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1946, the youngest known person elected to the Minnesota Legislature at that time. R. Carlisle Burdick, was 21 when he served in the 1856 Minnesota Territorial House of Representatives. He was the youngest known person to be elected to the Minnesota Territorial Legislative Assembly.

He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party endorsement for the United States House of Representatives in the 6th Congressional District in the 1992 election.

He announced that he was switching from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party to the Independent Republican party in December 1992.

He ran unsuccessfully as the Independent Republican endorsed candidate for the United States House of Representatives in the 6th Congressional District in the 1994 election.

He was a member of the Wright County Historical Society.

His grandfather, Bernard Jude, was Mayor of Maple Lake, Minnesota.

Jude was a candidate in the 2022 Minnesota Attorney General election but withdrew after being eliminated at the convention.

He filed to run for Hennepin County Attorney in the 2022 election, but lost the primary.

He announced his intention to run for the 3rd U.S. Congressional District in 2024.

He was a member of Our Lady of the Lake Church.

Religion provided by the Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1977-78 and the Catholic Bulletin, 3/21/1975.