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Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Jr. (June 30, 1907 – January 18, 1968) was a Republican government official from Michigan. He worked for many years on the staff of his father, Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), who served in the U.S. Senate from 1928 to 1951.
Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. (1907–1968), the senator's son, worked for the senator for more than a decade. In 1952 President Eisenhower appointed him appointments secretary, but he took a leave of absence before Eisenhower was inaugurated.
Arthur H. Vandenberg was a U.S. Republican senator who was largely responsible for bipartisan congressional support of international cooperation and of President Harry S. Truman’s anticommunist foreign policy after World War II.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The April 1951 death of Arthur H. Vandenberg removed from the Senate one of its undisputed twentieth-century giants. Although his death saddened his colleagues and admirers, it did not surprise them, for he had been away from the Senate for most of the 19 months since undergoing surgery for lung cancer.
Senator Arthur Vandenberg (1884-1951) of Michigan delivered a celebrated "speech heard round the world" in the Senate Chamber on January 10, 1945, announcing his conversion from isolationism to internationalism.
"The vital importance of 'saving China' cannot be exaggerated," wrote Senator Arthur Vandenberg, as civil war raged between Nationalist and Communist Chinese in October 1948. "But there are limits to our resources and. boundaries to our miracles."1 Vandenberg's despair was part of a signal postwar.
Finally, one may analyze Vandenberg's contributions in a logical sequence: Vandenberg's isolationism; his slow conversion to internationalism; his work at the San Francisco Conference; and his role in the Senate ratification of the United Nations Charter. Vandenberg's Isolationism.
