Vernon James "Vern" Ehlers (born February 6, 1934) is a United States politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He has represented Michigan's 3rd congressional district () since 1993. The district is based in Grand Rapids, and had once been represented by former President Gerald Ford (the district was numbered as the 5th District at the time).
Born in Pipestone, Minnesota, Vern Ehlers attended Calvin Colleg...
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Vernon James "Vern" Ehlers (born February 6, 1934) is a United States politician and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He has represented Michigan's 3rd congressional district () since 1993. The district is based in Grand Rapids, and had once been represented by former President Gerald Ford (the district was numbered as the 5th District at the time).
Born in Pipestone, Minnesota, Vern Ehlers attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids for three years before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an undergraduate degree in physics and, in 1960, a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. The title of his doctoral dissertation is "The nuclear spins and moments of several radioactive gallium isotopes" and is available from University Microfilms International as document number 0227304. After six years of teaching and research at Berkeley, he moved back to Michigan and took employment at Calvin College in 1966 where he taught physics for 16...
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