Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick (1884-1951), was an American statesman and political leader. He was appointed United States senator from Michigan in 1928. He was elected to the Senate a few months later and was reelected in 1934, 1940, and 1946. He became a Republican leader in the Senate and was active in molding United States foreign policy.
Vandenberg served as a United States representative at the United Nations conference in San Francisco in 1945. The next year he was a delegate to the Paris Conference. In 1947, Vandenberg became president pro tempore (temporary president) of the Senate. He gave up his Senate duties in 1950 because of illness. Vandenberg was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on March 22, 1884. He died on April 18, 1951.
