Early Life and Family
Arthur Vandenberg was born to Aaron and Alpha Hendrick Vandenberg and 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 Collier's 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 Whittaker. They had no children.
From 1906 to 1928, he worked as a newspaper reporter, editor, and publisher at the Grand Rapids Herald, which was owned by William Alden Smith, who served as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1919."Vandenberg . . . best known for his Alexander Hamilton: The Greatest American.
Vandenberg was a Mason, Shriner, Elk and Woodman.
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