Vern Ehlers

Vernon James " Vern " Ehlers ( born February 6, 1934 in Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota) is an American politician. He sat from 1993 to 2011 as a deputy for the Republican Party in the House of Representatives of the United States.

Vern Ehlers visited after completing his education in Pipestone three years, the Calvin College in Grand Rapids, and then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, where in 1960 he graduated as a Ph.D. made in atomic physics. After six years of teaching and research at Berkeley, he moved in 1966 to the Calvin College, where he taught physics for 16 years and then chairman of the physics department was.

His political career began Ehlers 1974, when he was first elected to the Board of Commissioners in Kent County and remained there for four legislative sessions. He then served on the Senate of Michigan for two years to the House of Representatives from Michigan and for eight years.

In 1993 he replaced as a member of Congress who died MPs Paul B. Henry and has his constituency since won six times, without significant opposition in the Democratic Party. Ehlers is considered moderate Republican who has voted for example, in matters of environmental protection already against his party. He is a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, a group of Republican politicians who advocate cooperation with the Democrats in certain subject areas. From 2008 to 2009 he was chairman of the House Administration Committee.

Ehlers told not to stand again in the elections of 2010 and thus 3 January 2011 to resign from Parliament. To his successor be applied Justin Amash, Republican congressman in the House of Representatives from Michigan. Amash has the choice to decide for himself and entered on January 3, 2011, the successor of Ehlers on, who retired.