Ralph Flanders
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican engineer, industrialist, and politician (1880-1970)
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.
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Flanders brothers, Ralph, Donald (Manhattan Project mathematician), and Ernest (co-inventor). Ca. 1955.
Ralph Flanders ca. 1916.
J&L publicity photo from ca.1940 showing J&L president, Ralph Flanders (left) and his brother, mechanical engineer Ernest Flanders (right of machine), with their invention, the automatic screw thread grinder.
Ralph Flanders 1940 campaign publicity photograph.Courtesy of the Vermont State Archives, Office of the Secretary of State
High Noon in WashingtonHerblock cartoon depicting Flanders attempting to deputize a reluctant Senator William F. Knowland in the effort to censure Senator Joseph McCarthy.
I don't like your methodsL.D. Warren cartoon, subtitled Flanders' Folly - How about a vote of censure for Flanders? that showed a pro-McCarthy side of the censure issue.Originally published in the New York Journal American in 1954.
Click here to read Flanders's March 9, 1954 speechAwards 2
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About this person
Ralph Edward Flanders 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. He was president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank for two years before being elected U.S. Senator from Vermont.
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