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Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (March 22, 1884April 18, 1951) was a Republican Senator from the U.S. state of Michigan who participated in the creation of the United Nations. He is best known for leading the Republican Party from a foreign policy of isolationism to one of internationalism, and supporting the Cold War, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO. ==Early life and family== Arthur Vandenberg was born to Aaron and Alpha Hendrick Vandenberg, of Dutch American heritage. He was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Vandenberg attended public schools there and studied law at the University of Michigan (1900–1901), where he was a member of Delta Upsilon. After a brief stint working in New York at ''Colliers magazine, he returned home in 1906 to marry his childhood sweetheart, Elizabeth Watson. They had three children. She died in 1917, and in 1918 Vandenberg married Hazel Whitaker. They had no children. From 1906 to 1928, he worked as a newspaper editor and publisher at the ''Grand Rapids Herald''. It was owned by William Alden Smith, who served as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1919. Vandenberg as publisher made the paper highly profitable; he was well paid. Vandenberg wrote most of the editorials, calling for more Progressivism in the spirit of his hero Theodore Roosevelt. However he supported President William Howard Taft over Roosevelt in 1912〔Kaplan, 2015, pp 5-8〕 He was well known for his biography ''Alexander Hamilton: The Greatest American''.〔G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921〕 Vandenberg was a Mason, Shriner, Elk, and Woodman.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur H. Vandenberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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