Vern Ehlers

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Vern Ehlers

Vernon James "Vern" Ehlers (born February 6, 1934 in Pipestone , Minnesota , † August 15, 2017 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ) was an American politician . He sat from 1993 to 2011 as a deputy for the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives .

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

His political career began Ehlers 1974, when he first came into the Board of Commissioners in Kent County has been selected and there for four legislative sessions remained. He then served in the Michigan House of Representatives for two years and the Michigan Senate for eight years .

In 1993, he replaced the late MP Paul B. Henry as a member of Congress and had won his constituency six times without substantial opposition from the Democratic Party . Ehlers was considered a moderate Republican who had already voted against his party on issues such as environmental protection. He was a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership , an association of Republican politicians who advocate collaboration with the Democrats on certain issues. From 2008 to 2009 he was Chairman of the House Administration Committee .

Ehlers declared that he would not run again in the 2010 elections and would therefore leave parliament on January 3, 2011. Justin Amash , Republican MP in the Michigan House of Representatives, ran for his successor . Amash won the election and succeeded Ehlers on January 3, 2011, who left.

In 1995 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1996 he was one of the Loeb Lecturers .

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SURNAME Ehlers, Vern
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehlers, Vernon James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Pipestone , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2017
Place of death Grand Rapids , Michigan