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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VermontRalph Edward FLANDERS
(1880-1970)
Senate Years of Service:
1946-1959Party: RepublicanFLANDERS, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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