Robert C. Hendrickson
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Robert Clymer Hendrickson (August 12, 1898 December 7, 1964) was a United States Senator
United States Senate
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 from New Jersey
New Jersey
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Biography

Born in Woodbury, New Jersey
Woodbury, New Jersey
Woodbury is a city in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, 10,307 residents were counted. Woodbury is the county seat of Gloucester County....

, he attended public schools and during the First World War
World War I
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 enlisted in the United States Army
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 in 1918 and served overseas. Since he left for war before his senior year of high school ended, Hendrickson received his Woodbury High School
Woodbury Junior-Senior High School
Woodbury Junior-Senior High School is a comprehensive community middle school and public high school that serves students in sixth through twelfth grades from Woodbury, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Woodbury Public Schools system.As of the 2008-09 school year, the...

 diploma while he was overseas in France
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. He then graduated from Temple University Law School
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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 in Philadelphia (1922) and was admitted to the New Jersey bar
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, commencing practice in Woodbury. He held the office of county supervisor from 1929 to 1934, and was city solicitor of Woodbury in 1931. He was a member of the New Jersey Senate
New Jersey Senate
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 from 1934 to 1940, serving as president of the senate in 1939; he was an unsuccessful Republican
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 nominee for Governor
Governor of New Jersey
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 in 1940. He served as State treasurer from 1942 to 1948 and a member of board of managers of the Council of State Governments, in 1940, and was its chairman in 1941. He was vice chairman of Commission on Delaware River
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 Basin from 1936 to 1951. He served on the New Jersey Constitutional Revision Commission.

During the Second World War
World War II
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 he rejoined the Army in 1943, was commissioned a major, served with the American Military Government in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1944, being separated from the service in 1946. As a senior legal officer in the U.S. Army in North Africa, Italy and Austria, he worked on the re-establishment of civil rights and local courts and the implementation of de-nazification programs and the care of displaced persons. He was called back into active duty for the Korean War
Korean War
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 in 1951. In 1948, he was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, and served from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1955; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1954. President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Hendrickson to the post of United States Ambassador to New Zealand
United States Ambassador to New Zealand
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, which he held from February 16, 1955 to November 20, 1956. He was a resident of Woodbury until his death in 1964; interment was in Eglington Cemetery
Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro
Eglington Cemetery is a cemetery in Clarksboro, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.-Notable interments:*Robert C. Hendrickson , United States Senator from New Jersey from 1949 to 1955.*Henry C...

, Clarksboro, New Jersey
Clarksboro, New Jersey
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