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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MichiganArthur Hendrick VANDENBERG
(1884-1951)
Senate Years of Service:
1928-1951Party: RepublicanVANDENBERG, 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.
Bibliography
American 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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