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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 US House of Representatives .

Career

Guy Vander Jagt attended Cadillac High School until 1949 and then Hope College in Holland (Michigan) until 1953 . Until 1955 he studied at Yale University and in 1956 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in the then German capital Bonn . In the meantime he worked for a short time as a pastor and as a news editor at a television station. After completing a law degree at the University of Michigan and being admitted to the bar in 1960, he began working in his new profession in Grand Rapids .

Politically, Vander Jagt was a member of the Republican Party . He served in the Michigan Senate in 1965 and 1966 . After the resignation of MP Robert P. Griffin , who moved to the US Senate , he was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington at the due by-election for the ninth seat of Michigan, where he was new on November 8, 1966 Took office. After twelve re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1993 . During this time, among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate Affair as well as the adoption of the 25th , 26th and 27th amendments to the constitution . During his time in Congress, Vander Jagt was intermittently a member of the Space Committee , the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Control Committee.

In 1980, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, he gave an important speech on behalf of Ronald Reagan , who was nominated as a presidential candidate at that party convention. Vander Jagt was an ardent supporter of President Reagan and unsuccessfully called for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment , which limited the president's terms to two terms, to allow his idol further elections to the presidency.

In 1992 Vander Jagt could no longer prevail in his party's primary elections and was therefore not nominated for further re-election. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer in a large Cleveland- based law firm. He died on June 22, 2007 in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• Guy Vander Jagt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Guy Vander Jagt in the database of Find a Grave (English)