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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MichiganVANDENBERG, Arthur Hendrick
(1884—1951)
Senate Years of Service:
1928-1951
Party:
Republican
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.
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Dunlap, Aurie Nichols. “The Political Career of Arthur H. Vandenberg.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1955.
Eldersveld, A. Martin. “A Review and Thematic Analysis of Arthur H. Vandenberg’s Senate Addresses on Foreign Policy.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1960.
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Kling, Merle. “The Tenability of Isolationism and Internationalism as Designations of the Foreign Policy of the United States—A Case Study of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Representative Vito Marcantonio.” Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University, 1949.
Lehman, Ronald Frank, II. “Vandenberg, Taft, and Truman: Principle and Politics in the Announcement of the Truman Doctrine.” Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1975.
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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