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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh, and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the last* of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Michigan's Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: VANDENBERG | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Vital Statistics. Age: 64 (born March 22, 1884, in a modest frame house in Grand Rapids). Ancestry: His father, Aaron Vandenberg, was of Dutch descent; his mother, Alpha Hendrick, of English. His father, a native of New York, moved to Michigan in 1878, where he went into the harness-making business. His elder half-brother Collins is the father of General Hoyt Vandenberg, new Air Force chief of staff. Educated: Grand Rapids grade and high schools, one year at the University of Michigan (1901-02). Married: in 1907 to Elizabeth Watson of Grand Rapids, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: VANDENBERG | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Observers knew that Jim Duff was heart & soul for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, hesitated to speak only because he had no assurance that Vandenberg was a serious candidate. Vandenberg had run sixth in the state's primary. Said Jim Duff: "I feel certain that if [people] had known he was available his vote would have been much larger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: One of Those Mornings | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...time Sigler had finished, the legislature was seething with charges and countercharges. Rising up with accusing finger, State Senator William Vandenberg* shouted at his colleagues: "You are the men who killed the governor's program because of your vindictiveness." Snapped one of the accused: "I don't want him, you can have him, he's two-faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Riding for a Fall | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Following the Senator's address, the Republicans will hear a wire recording of the third ballot of the HYRC mock convention which last week nominated Arthur H. Vandenberg for the Presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Hears Senator Saltonstall Tonight | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

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