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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VermontFLANDERS, Ralph Edward
(1880—1970)
Senate Years of Service:
1946-1959
Party:
Republican
FLANDERS, Ralph Edward, a Senator from Vermont; born in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vt., September 28, 1880; moved with his parents to Pawtucket, R.I., in 1886; attended the public schools at Pawtucket, Lincoln, and Central Falls, R.I.; engaged as a machinist apprentice at Providence, R.I., in 1897 and remained in the machine tool industry until his death; moved to Springfield, Vt., in 1910; president of the Federal Reserve Board of Boston 1944-1946; appointed on November 1, 1946, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the resignation of Warren R. Austin; elected in 1946 and again in 1952 and served from November 1, 1946, to January 3, 1959; was not a candidate for renomination in 1958; inventor of important developments in the machine tool industry; author of several books and articles on technical and sociological subjects; died in Springfield, Vt., February 19, 1970; cremated in Springfield, Mass., February 23, 1970; ashes deposited in Summer Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Vt.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Flanders, Ralph E. Senator From Vermont
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1961; Griffith, Robert. “Ralph Flanders and the Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.” Vermont History
39 (Winter 1971): 5-20.
Flanders, Ralph Edward. The American Century
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.
___. The Function of Management in American Life
. Stanford: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 1949.
___. Gear-Cutting Machinery
. New York: J. Wiley Sons, 1909.
___. Letter to a Generation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1956.
___. Platform for America
. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1936.
___. Senator from Vermont
. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1961.
___. Taming Our Machines: The Attainment of Human Values in a Mechanized Society
. New York: R.R. Smith, 1931.
Griffith, Robert. “Ralph Flanders and the Censure of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.” Vermont History
39 (Winter 1971): 5-20.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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