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From Newsboy to U S Senator Vandenberg's Michigan Rise
Arthur Heidrick Vandenberg was born in Grand Rapids Michigan on March 22 1884. He started as a reporter for the Grand Rapids Herald and rose to general manager and president. Appointed U S Senator in 1928 he rejected an apprenticeship and led a successful fight for congressional reapportionment. He helped push the Nye munitions inquiry and contributed to bank deposit insurance legislation. He idolized Alexander Haulton and wrote two books about him. He has three children from a first marriage and is married a second time after his wife died. He is Congregationalist Mason Shriner Elk Woodman of the World and a Delta Upsilon.
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