American engineer, industrialist, and politician (1880–1970)
Ralph Flanders
United States Senator from Vermont
In office November 1, 1946 – January 3, 1959
Preceded by
Warren Austin
Succeeded by
Winston L. Prouty
6th President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
In office May 1, 1944 – February 28, 1946
Preceded by
William Paddock
Succeeded by
Laurence F. Whittemore
Personal details
Born
Ralph Edward Flanders
(1880-09-28)September 28, 1880 Barnet, Vermont, U.S.
Died
February 19, 1970(1970-02-19) (aged 89) Springfield, Vermont, U.S.
Resting place
Summer Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Vermont
Political party
Republican
Spouse
Helen Hartness
Children
3
Relatives
James Hartness (father-in-law)
Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island and was an apprentice machinist and draftsman before training as a mechanical engineer. He spent five years in New York City as an editor for a machine tool magazine. After moving back to Vermont, he managed and then became president of a successful machine tool company. Flanders used his experience as an industrialist to advise state and national commissions in Vermont, New England and Washington, D.C., on industrial and economic policy.[1] He was president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank for two years before being elected U.S. Senator from Vermont.
Flanders was noted for introducing a 1954 motion in the Senate to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy had made sensational claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government and elsewhere. He used his Senate committee as a nationally televised forum for attacks on individuals whom he accused. Flanders felt that McCarthy's attacks distracted the nation from a much greater threat of Communist successes elsewhere in the world and that they had the effect of creating division and confusion within the United States, to the advantage of its enemies. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led to his being discredited and censured by the United States Senate.[2]
Ralph Edward Flanders (September 28, 1880 – February 19, 1970) was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and politician who served as a Republican...
capital and private equity firm founded in 1946 by Georges Doriot, RalphFlanders, Merrill Griswold, and Karl Compton. ARDC is credited with the first...
for the Misbegotten. Flanders was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Bernice (née Brown) and Francis Michael Grey Flanders. His mother was killed...
House of Flanders was the first dynasty to transform a county function of the Carolingian Empire into a hereditary fiefdom, the County of Flanders, falling...
Ambassador to the United Nations. In November, he was succeeded by Ralph E. Flanders. In June 1946, President Harry S. Truman nominated Austin to be Ambassador...
The count of Flanders was the ruler or sub-ruler of the county of Flanders, beginning in the 9th century. Later, the title would be held for a time, by...
Flanders (circa 843 – 870 or later) was a Carolingian princess who became Queen of Wessex by two successive marriages and later Countess of Flanders....
election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1952. Incumbent Republican RalphFlanders successfully ran for re-election to another term in the United States...
1946. Georges Doriot, the "father of venture capitalism", along with RalphFlanders and Karl Compton (former president of MIT) founded ARDC in 1946 to encourage...
Trade. p. 109. ISBN 0-275-95130-8. Flanders, Ralph (1961). Senator from Vermont. Boston: Little, Brown. "Text of Flanders's speech". March 9, 1959. Archived...
William W. Paddock 1879–1957 April 1, 1942 May 1, 1944 2 years, 30 days 6 RalphFlanders 1880–1970 May 1, 1944 February 28, 1946 1 year, 303 days 7 Laurence...
Annie Flanders (10 June 1939 - 10 March 2022) was an American publisher. Flanders was born in the Bronx, New York, as Marcia Weinraub to Dorothy (Lautman)...
the Rhode Island School of Design (1967–1985). Incumbent Republican RalphFlanders did not run for re-election to another term in the United States Senate...
reprint from Lindsay Publications (ISBN 978-0-917914-86-7). Foreword by RalphFlanders. A memoir that contains quite a bit of general history of the industry...
of Flanders and uncle Robert II of Flanders. In 1092 Adela went to southern Italy to marry Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia, leaving Charles in Flanders. Charles...
election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1958. Incumbent Republican RalphFlanders did not run for re-election to another term in the United States Senate...
Senate in 1940, the pro-business wing of the party endorsed RalphFlanders. Aiken defeated Flanders in the GOP Senate primary in 1940 and was easily elected...
reprint from Lindsay Publications (ISBN 978-0-917914-86-7). Foreword by RalphFlanders. Floud, Roderick C. (2006) [1976], The British Machine Tool Industry...
RalphFlanders successfully ran for re-election to a full term in the United States Senate, defeating Democratic candidate Charles P. McDevitt. Ralph...
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