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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Arthur H. Vandenberg |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan , United States |
| Email | None |
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March 22, 1884
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| Died | April 18, 1951
(67 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | Arthur Vandenberg was born in Grand Rapids on 22nd March, 1884. After studying law at the University of Michigan he went into publishing. Between 1906 and 1928 Vandenberg was editor of the Grand Rapids Herald.
A member of the Republican Party, Vandenberg was elected to the Senate in March 1928. Over the next few years Vandenberg campaigned to take the profits out of war.
On 8th February, 1934, Gerald Nye submitted a Senate Resolution calling for an investigation of the munitions industry by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Key Pittman of Nevada. Pittman disliked the idea and the resolution was referred to the Military Affairs Committee. It was eventually combined with one introduced earlier by Vandenberg.
The Military Affairs Committee accepted the proposal and as well as Nye and Vandenberg, the Munitions Investigating Committee included James P. Pope of Idaho, Homer T. Bone of Washington, Joel B. Clark of Missouri, Walter F. George of Georgia and W. Warren Barbour of New Jersey. John T. Flynn, a writer with the New Republic magazine, was appointed as an advisor and Alger Hiss as the committee's legal assistant.
Public hearings before the Munitions Investigating Committee began on 4th September, 1934. In the reports published by the committee it was claimed that there was a strong link between the American government's decision to enter the First World War and the lobbying of the the munitions industry. The committee was also highly critical of the nation's bankers. In a speech in 1936 Nye argued that "the record of facts makes it altogether fair to say that these bankers were in the heart and center of a system that made our going to war inevitable".
Vandenberg was a delegate to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945 and served on the Committee on Foreign Relations (1947-49). He was a member of Congress until his death on 18th April, 1951.
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