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Senate Years of Service: 1928-1951 Party: Republican
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VANDENBERG, Arthur Hendrick, a Senator from Michigan; born in Grand Rapids, Mich., March 22,
1884; attended the public schools and studied law at the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor; editor and publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald 1906-1928;
author; appointed on March 31, 1928, as a Republican to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Woodbridge N. Ferris; was
elected on November 6, 1928, to fill this vacancy and also for the term ending
January 3, 1935; reelected in 1934, 1940 and 1946 and served from March 31,
1928, until his death; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the
Eightieth Congress; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-second
Congress), Republican Conference (Seventy-ninth Congress), Committee on Foreign
Relations (Eightieth Congress); delegate to the United Nations Conference at
San Francisco in 1945; delegate to the United Nations General Assembly at
London and New York in 1946; United States adviser to the Council of Foreign
Ministers at London, Paris, and New York in 1946; delegate to Pan American
Conference at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1947; died in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
April 18, 1951; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Tompkins, C. David.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: The Evolution of a Modern Republican,
1884-1945. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1970; Vandenberg,
Arthur H., Jr., and Morris, Joe Alex., eds.
The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg. 1952. Reprint.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974.
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