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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyRobert Clymer HENDRICKSON
(1898-1964)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1955Party: RepublicanHENDRICKSON, Robert
Clymer, a Senator from New Jersey; born in Woodbury,
Gloucester County, N.J., August 12, 1898; attended public schools;
during the First World War enlisted in the United States Army in
1918 and served overseas; graduated from Temple University Law
School, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1922, admitted to the New Jersey bar,
and commenced practice in Woodbury, N.J.; county supervisor
1929-1934; city solicitor of Woodbury 1931; State senator
1934-1940, serving as president of the senate in 1939; unsuccessful
Republican nominee for Governor in 1940; State treasurer 1942-1948;
member of board of managers, Council of State Governments, in 1940
and chairman in 1941; vice chairman of Commission on Delaware River
Basin 1936-1951; during the Second World War enlisted in 1943,
commissioned a major, served with the American Military Government
in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, promoted to lieutenant
colonel in 1944, and separated from the service in 1946; called
back into active duty in 1951; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1948, and served from January 3, 1949, to
January 2, 1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954;
appointed Ambassador to New Zealand by President Dwight Eisenhower
1955-1956; lawyer; was a resident of Woodbury, N.J., until his
death December 7, 1964; interment in Eglington Cemetery,
Clarksboro, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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