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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyAlbert Lincoln VREELAND
(1901-1975)
VREELAND, Albert Lincoln,
a Representative from New Jersey; born in East Orange, Essex
County, N.J., July 2, 1901; attended the public schools; served as
ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in 1918 and 1919; was
graduated from the New York Electrical School in New York City in
1919, the Peddie School, Hightstown, N.J., in 1922, and the New
Jersey Law School at Newark in 1925; was admitted to the bar in
1927 and commenced practice in East Orange, N.J.; assistant city
counsel and city prosecutor of East Orange 1929-1934; judge of the
recorder’s court of East Orange 1934-1938; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses
(January 3, 1939-January 3, 1943); was a captain in the United
States Army Reserve and on December 9, 1941, was granted leave of
absence from the House of Representatives to go on active duty and
assigned to the Military Intelligence Section of the War
Department; transferred to the Seventy-sixth Infantry Division in
April 1942; commissioned a major in Infantry on July 17, 1942, and
on July 18, 1942, by Presidential directive, was ordered back to
the House of Representatives; was not a candidate for renomination
in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; reentered the Army on
January 4, 1943, and served two years in Australia and New Guinea;
commissioned a lieutenant colonel on August 27, 1944, and ordered
to inactive duty August 27, 1945; colonel, A.I., USAR (retired);
police commissioner of East Orange, N.J., 1945-1951; public
relations officer for the Celanese Corporation of America
1945-1946; resumed the practice of law; died in Orange, N.J., May
3, 1975; interment in Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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