Arthur H. Vandenberg
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Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (March 22, 1884 – April 18, 1951) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951.
He was a founding member of the Republican Party and was instrumental in the founding of the United Nations.
He is best known for leading the Republican Party from an isolationism foreign policy to one of internationalism, as well as supporting the Cold War, the Marshall Plan, and NATO.
From 1947 to 1949, he served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate. Vandenberg, a Dutch American born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, began his work as a newspaper editor and publisher.
Senator Fred W. Green of 1928 named Vandenberg to the Senate to fill the vacancy that arose after the death of Woodbridge Nathan Ferris.
Vandenberg ran for a full term in the legislature later this year and served in the Senate until his death in 1951.
He favored the early New Deal programs but decided to oppose the bulk of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic policies.
Vandenberg, a late 1930s writer, also opposed the United States' involvement in World War II and urged Roosevelt to seek an understanding with Japan. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Vandenberg left his isolationism, however.
In 1947, he became Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and endorsed Democratic President Harry Truman's Cold War policies, claiming that "politics stops at the water's edge." Vandenberg served as the chairman of the Republican Senate Conference from 1945 to 1947, as the Senate's president pro tempore from 1947 to 1949.
In 1940 and 1948, he unsuccessfully applied for president of the United States.
Early life and family
Vandenberg was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the son of Alpha (née Hendrick) and Aaron Vandenberg, who were of mostly Dutch origins. Vandenberg attended Grand Rapids Central High School and graduated from Grand Rapids Central High School in June 1900, ranked first in his class. He later studied law at the University of Michigan (1900–1901), where he was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He returned home in 1906 to marry Elizabeth Watson, his childhood sweetheart, after a brief stint in New York with Collier's Weekly newspaper. They had three children. Hazel Whitaker married in 1917 and died in 1918. They had no children at the time.
He worked as a newspaper editor and publisher at the Grand Rapids Herald from 1906 to 1928. It was owned by William Alden Smith, who served as a Republican in the US Senate from 1907 to 1919. Vandenberg, a book publisher, made the paper extremely profitable. The bulk of the editorials were written by him, with some calling for more Progressivism in the spirit of his hero Theodore Roosevelt. In the 1912 election, he favored incumbent President William Howard Taft over Roosevelt over Roosevelt. In 1915, Vandenberg coined the phrase "loon ship" for Henry Ford's Peace Ship in reaction to Ford's more radical plans.
Vandenberg, a gifted public speaker, gave speeches on behalf of Republican candidates during Democratic campaigns. He appeared at many local, county, and state Republican conventions as a delegate, as well as several convention keynote addresses. Vandenberg's work for the party gave him a high public profile, and he was often described as a candidate for governor or other offices.
During World War I, Vandenberg, a widower with three small children, was ineligible for active military service. Vandenberg, a writer who spoke at hundreds of Liberty bond rallies in Michigan and Ohio, in which he encouraged listeners to express their patriotism by improving US military readiness and combat. In addition, he joined the Michigan State Troops, the non-government group that carried out many of the National Guard's duties after the Guard was federalized. Vandenberg, a first lieutenant, ran a business in Grand Rapids until the war's end. Vandenberg helped found and assemble the American Legion's Michigan branch following the war.
Vandenberg's biography The Greatest American: Alexander Hamilton garnered national attention in 1921. If Hamilton Were Here Today: American Fundamentals Applied to New Problems in 1923; and The Trail of a Tradition, a history of American nationalism and international policy in 1926.
Masons, Shriners, Elks, and Woodmen of the World were among Vandenberg's fraternal associations.
Senate career 1928–1935
On March 31, 1928, Governor Fred W. Green appointed 44-year-old Vandenberg, a Republican, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris, a Democrat. Green considered resigning so he could be appointed to the vacancy. He also considered several other candidates, including former Governors Albert Sleeper and Chase Osborn. In addition, Green considered Representative Joseph W. Fordney, who would have been a placeholder until the election for the remainder of Ferris' term. Green finally decided upon Vandenberg, who immediately declared his intention to stand for election to both the short, unexpired term and the full six-year term.
He became the fifth former journalist then serving in the U.S. Senate. Governor Green "stressed the advantage of youth as a qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms" which was deemed an explanation for appointing Vandenberg over the aged Fordney. "Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats."
In November 1928, Vandenberg was handily elected for a full term, defeating Democratic challenger John W. Bailey with over 70% of the vote. In the Senate, he piloted into law the Reapportionment Act of 1929, which updated the process for redistricting of the House of Representatives after each national census and capped the number of representatives at 435. He was at first an ardent supporter of Republican President Herbert Hoover but he became discouraged by Hoover's intransigence, and failures in dealing with the Great Depression.
After the election of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932, Vandenberg went along with most of the early New Deal measures, except for the National Industrial Recovery Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act. With the exception of his amendment to the 1933 Glass–Steagall Banking Act, that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Vandenberg failed to secure enactment of any significant legislative proposals. By the 1934 election, though his own political position was precarious, he was still reelected over Democratic candidate Frank Albert Picard by 52,443 votes.