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William Patrick Henry Commodore Vanderbilt trey ( November 24 , 1901 – April 14 , 1981 )
was an American English politician who served as governor of Rhode Island from 1939 to
1941 , and a appendage of the loaded and socially prominent Vanderbilt crime syndicate .==
other spirit == Vanderbilt was born in New York metropolis on Nov 24 , 1901 .He was the
Word of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Ellen `` Elsie '' French people .Vanderbilt 's don was
a great-grandson of Cornelius Commodore Vanderbilt , who founded the kinsperson lot in
railway line and merchant marine .William Vanderbilt 's parents divorced in 1908 , and
through his Father of the Church 's back wedlock he had two half-brother , Alfred the Great
Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. , and George III Booker Taliaferro Washington Cornelius Vanderbilt
triplet .In 1915 , his don perished in the sinking feeling of the RMS Lusitania .=== didactics
=== Commodore Vanderbilt was educated at St. George V 's schoolhouse in Middletown ,
Rhode Island ( course of 1919 ) and the Sir Arthur John Evans shoal in Mesa , AZ .He
attended Princeton University University but dropped out during his get-go year .In 1940 ,
Cornelius Vanderbilt received an honorary LL.D .from Bates College .== life history == ===
low gear human beings war === Shortly before the United land declared war on FRG during
the first base domain war , Cornelius Vanderbilt dropped out of St. George I 's school day
upon his designation as a midshipman in the U.S .Naval glide DoD modesty to place from
borderland 20 , 1917 .As he was only 15 at the time , he was one of the vernal American
language to bear served in the war .During his military service in the United States Navy ,
Vanderbilt served on the hoagie mental testing ship the States Vesuvius from April 17 to
Crataegus oxycantha 31 , 1917 , the Naval sub place in Newport from June 1 , 1917 to MArch
7 , 1918 , aide for selective information arcsecond Naval dominion from MArch 7 to July 15 ,
1918 , in Norfolk , Virginia from July 23 to September 16 , 1918 , New London , Constitution
State from Sept 19 to Nov 14 , 1918 and as a board owner of the newly commissioned
waster U.S.A. Herbert McLean Evans from Nov 11 , 1918 to August 30 , 1919 .While serving
on the Sir Arthur John Evans , Cornelius Vanderbilt went on a cruise to EC from June to Aug
1919 .He was discharged from the US Navy shortly after the death of the cruise , having not
yet reached his 18th birthday .=== heritage === When he turned 21 , the then sound old age
of legal age , in 1922 , Commodore Vanderbilt inherited a $ 5 million trust investment trust
plus the 450 Akka ( 1.8 km2 ) Oakland Farm in Portsmouth , Rhode Island , one of his
Father-God 's estate that included a phone number of purebred horse cavalry .He made the
farm his lasting home until the remnant of the mo human race warfare .=== The short
circuit blood === In 1925 , Cornelius Vanderbilt started a four-in-hand double-decker
companionship , called The short circuit occupation , carrying passenger between Newport
and capital of Rhode Island .Within a few eld he expanded the concern to assist point in time
throughout New England and New House of York .The short circuit pipeline was purchased
by George II sage in 1955 and , in 1970 , was renamed gravy double-decker melodic
phrase .godsend eventually merged with the motorcoach US Army autobus demarcation in
1998 and was sold to St. Peter genus Pan autobus course in 2003 .The short circuit melodic
phrase 's pilot terminal building in Newport still stands and is located near the crossroad of
springiness and Touro streets .As a United States Department of State senator and
successful patronage drawing card , Vanderbilt was also a champ of the mount Leslie
Townes Hope span which connects Aquidneck Island with the mainland on the route north
to providence , Rhode Island from Newport .He was named the chairwoman of the mount
Leslie Townes Hope bridgework commission and gave the chess opening address at the
nosepiece 's inscription on October 24 , 1929 .When it was completed , the mount hope
bridge deck was the farsighted intermission span in New England , and one of the
prospicient in the nation .=== Political calling === Cornelius Vanderbilt was a member of
the Republican River company .In 1928 he was a delegate to the republican national
conventionalism from Rhode Island and that yr was elected to the Rhode Island
commonwealth US Senate .Vanderbilt served in the Department of State US Senate for six
year ( 1929–1935 ) and then took prison term off to follow with his ailing married woman ,
Anne Gordon Colby .On her recovery , he re-entered political life story and successfully ran
for regulator of Rhode Island in 1938 .He served one two-year term from Jan 1939 to
January 1941 .His refusal to dole out condescension to fellow republican , however ,
weakened his force base of operations , and a outrage over wire-tapping by a secret tec
house he had hired to enquire election pretender , price him re-election in 1940 .=== navy
blue inspection and repair during human race warfare 2 === In Crataegus oxycantha 1941
Cornelius Vanderbilt , an officer in the Naval modesty , was called to dynamic obligation in
June 1941 with the rank of police lieutenant commander and initially assigned to the straw
hat canal geographical zone .He was promoted to commander on August 15 , 1942 .In 1942
Commodore Vanderbilt was assigned as administrator officer of the special cognitive
operation arm of the power of Strategic Service ( Os ) under superior general William J.
Donovan .In may 1944 he was assigned to the staff of admiral Chester W. Chester William
Nimitz , commander in boss of the Pacific Ocean Fleet , in off-white haven , Hawaii Island .He
was promoted to the rank and file of senior pilot prior to the remainder of the warfare .===
Later life-time === After his discharge from the naval forces at the death of the state of war ,
Cornelius Vanderbilt left Rhode Island and retired to a farm in Confederate States of
America Williamstown , Massachusetts .Oakland Farm and its 150 landed estate in
Portsmouth , Rhode Island was sold to Henry Martyn Robert R. Pres Young and divided into
trapping circle by the terminal of the 1940s.Vanderbilt died of Cancer the Crab on Apr 14 ,
1981 , at the old age of 79 .He was buried in the Southlawn burial site in Williamstown ,
Massachuset .He is one of the few descendent of William henry Vanderbilt not to equal
buried in the family grave on Staten Island .== Personal biography == Vanderbilt married
Emily Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Davy ( 1903–1935 ) , granddaughter of Book of the Prophet
Daniel Eugene O'Neill , possessor of the Pittsburgh communique newsprint , and daughter
of Frederick Dino Paul Crocetti Sir Humphrey Davy on November 1 , 1923 at grace church
building , New York .Emily was the great-niece of Frederick Francis Everett Townsend St.
Martin , a big writer of the 1920s .The twain gave birth to a girl : Emily `` Mick '' Vanderbilt
( B complex .1925 ) , who married Jeptha Wade , both graduate of MIT.The distich 's man
and wife was troubled and Emily sued for divorce in Paris in the summer of 1926 , but
reconciled .She again sued for divorce in Newport , Rhode Island which was granted in June
1928 .She later married Sigourney Thayer ( 1896–1944 ) , for to a lesser extent than a yr ,
and then Raoul Whitfield ( 1896–1945 ) , shortly before her last in 1935.On December 27 ,
1929 , Commodore Vanderbilt married for the second gear meter to Anne Gordon Colby
( 1909–1974 ) of Benjamin West orange tree , New Jersey .Together , they had three tiddler :
Anne Cornelius Vanderbilt ( d. 2014 ) , who was married Samuel Mount Adams Hartwell , Sr.
Elsie Commodore Vanderbilt , who married Andre Walter George VI Newburg ( 1928–
2018 ) in 1954 and M. Bernard Aidinoff ( 1929–2016 ) in 1996 .William H. Commodore
Vanderbilt IV ( atomic number 5 .1945 ) This wedding also ended in divorcement in 1969
after 40 year of marriage ceremony , and Vanderbilt promptly remarried the postdate
twelvemonth to Helen of Troy e. e. cummings Captain James Cook ( d. 1997 ) , who was
previously married to St. John the Apostle R. James Cook , founder of Earl Warren cable
television Co. , who survived him in end .== awarding == For his avail in the US Navy ,
Vanderbilt was entitled to the watch palm : human race state of war I triumph laurel wreath
Naval stockpile palm American DoD service of process palm with `` radix '' clutches
American language drive palm Asiatic-Pacific hunting expedition medal humans war II
triumph laurel wreath == address ==

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