Guy Vander Jagt

Guy Adrian Vander Jagt ( born August 26, 1931 in Cadillac, Michigan, † June 22 2007 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1966 and 1993 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Guy Vander Jagt visited until 1949 the Cadillac High School and then to 1953 Hope College in Holland (Michigan). Until 1955, he then studied at Yale University and in 1956 at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in the former German capital Bonn. In the meantime, he worked briefly as a pastor and as a news editor at a TV station. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan and its made ​​in 1960 admitted to the bar he started in Grand Rapids to work in his new profession.

Politically, Vanderjagt member of the Republican Party. In the years 1965 and 1966 he sat in the Senate from Michigan. Following the resignation of Mr Robert P. Griffin, who moved to the U.S. Senate, he was elected to the due election for the ninth seat of Michigan as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he new on November 8, 1966 mandate took. After twelve elections he could remain until January 3, 1993 at the Congress. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair and the adoption of the 25th, the 26th and the 27th Amendment. During his time in Congress Vanderjagt was temporarily a member of the Space Committee, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Fiscal Affairs.

In 1980 he held to the Republican National Convention in Detroit an important speech in favor of Ronald Reagan, who was nominated at this congress as a presidential candidate. Vanderjagt was an enthusiastic supporter of President Reagan and demanded unsuccessfully lifting the 22 Amendment, which limited the terms of office of the President to two terms in order to allow his idol other elections in the presidency.

1992, Vanderjagt could not prevail in the primaries of his party and therefore was not nominated for a further re-election. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in a large Cleveland-based law firm. He died on 22 June 2007 in the German capital Washington.

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