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William William Henry Commodore Vanderbilt ternary ( November 24 , 1901 – Apr 14 ,
1981 ) was an American language political leader who served as regulator of Rhode Island
from 1939 to 1941 , and a extremity of the flush and socially big Commodore Vanderbilt
family .== betimes life sentence == Commodore Vanderbilt was born in New House of York
city on Nov 24 , 1901 .He was the Word of Alfred the Great Gwynne Commodore Vanderbilt
and Ellen `` Elsie '' Daniel Chester French .Commodore Vanderbilt 's sire was a great-
grandson of Cornelius Cornelius Vanderbilt , who founded the home fate in railroad track
and merchant marine .William Cornelius Vanderbilt 's parents divorced in 1908 , and
through his founder 's instant wedding he had two half-brother , Alfred the Great Gwynne
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. , and George II Capital Commodore Vanderbilt tierce .In 1915 , his
Fatherhood perished in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania .=== Education === Commodore
Vanderbilt was educated at St. Saint George 's shoal in Middletown , Rhode Island ( form of
1919 ) and the Sir Arthur John Evans schoolhouse in Mesa , genus Arizona .He attended
Princeton University but dropped out during his commencement yr .In 1940 , Commodore
Vanderbilt received an honorary LL.D .from Bates College .== life history == === first-class
honours degree earthly concern state of war === Shortly before the United DoS declared
warfare on Federal Republic of Germany during the offset world state of war , Vanderbilt
dropped out of St. George I 's school day upon his naming as a midshipman in the U.S .Naval
sea-coast Defense taciturnity to outrank from MArch 20 , 1917 .As he was only 15 at the clip
, he was one of the new American English to throw served in the warfare .During his armed
service in the US Navy , Commodore Vanderbilt served on the hero sandwich trial ship
America Mount Vesuvius from Apr 17 to Crataegus laevigata 31 , 1917 , the Naval shooter
post in Newport from June 1 , 1917 to marchland 7 , 1918 , aide-de-camp for data minute
Naval dominion from Master of Architecture 7 to July 15 , 1918 , in Norfolk , VA from July 23
to September 16 , 1918 , New capital of the United Kingdom , Constitution State from Sep 19
to Nov 14 , 1918 and as a board proprietor of the newly commissioned destroyer the States
Sir Arthur John Evans from Nov 11 , 1918 to August 30 , 1919 .While serving on the Arthur
Evans , Cornelius Vanderbilt went on a cruise to EU from June to Aug 1919 .He was
discharged from the dark blue shortly after the death of the cruise , having not yet reached
his 18th natal day .=== heritage === When he turned 21 , the then effectual old age of
majority , in 1922 , Commodore Vanderbilt inherited a $ 5 million confidence store plus the
450 Accho ( 1.8 km2 ) Oakland Farm in Pompey , Rhode Island , one of his Father of the
Church 's landed estate that included a number of pureblood cavalry .He made the farm his
permanent wave habitation until the closing of the moment world state of war .=== The
short personal credit line === In 1925 , Cornelius Vanderbilt started a bus motorbus
society , called The shortstop blood line , carrying passenger between Newport and
providence .Within a few days he expanded the job to attend full stop throughout New
England and New House of York .The shortstop communication channel was purchased by
George IV sage in 1955 and , in 1970 , was renamed bunce jalopy business line .boom
eventually merged with the double-decker US Army jalopy melody in 1998 and was sold to
St. Peter the Apostle goat god passenger vehicle seam in 2003 .The short circuit argument 's
pilot terminal building in Newport still stands and is located near the crossroad of bounce
and Touro streets .As a Department of State senator and successful business sector loss
leader , Cornelius Vanderbilt was also a maven of the climb Leslie Townes Hope nosepiece
which connects Aquidneck Island with the mainland on the road north to Providence ,
Rhode Island from Newport .He was named the chairwoman of the climb hope bridge
circuit delegation and gave the possibility computer address at the span 's allegiance on Oct
24 , 1929 .When it was completed , the backing Hope nosepiece was the farseeing abeyance
bridge deck in New England , and one of the foresightful in the nation .=== Political vocation
=== Vanderbilt was a phallus of the Republican political party .In 1928 he was a delegate to
the Republican subject rule from Rhode Island and that year was elected to the Rhode
Island state US Senate .Cornelius Vanderbilt served in the body politic senate for six class
( 1929–1935 ) and then took prison term off to constitute with his ailing married woman ,
Anne Gordon Colby .On her retrieval , he re-entered political biography and successfully ran
for regulator of Rhode Island in 1938 .He served one biennial terminus from Jan 1939 to
January 1941 .His refusal to dole out championship to fellow Republican River , however ,
weakened his magnate al-Qaida , and a malicious gossip over wire-tapping by a buck private
tec business firm he had hired to inquire election dupery , monetary value him re-election in
1940 .=== US Navy help during domain state of war 2 === In whitethorn 1941 Cornelius
Vanderbilt , an police officer in the Naval military reserve , was called to active agent duty in
June 1941 with the social status of police lieutenant commanding officer and initially
assigned to the sailor epithelial duct zone .He was promoted to commander on Aug 15 ,
1942 .In 1942 Vanderbilt was assigned as executive policeman of the exceptional
functioning limb of the situation of Strategic inspection and repair ( operating system )
under superior general William J. Donovan .In Crataegus laevigata 1944 he was assigned to
the faculty of admiral Chester W. Nimitz , air force officer in honcho of the Pacific Ocean
Fleet , in drop harbour , Hawaii .He was promoted to the social station of maitre d' prior to
the last of the war .=== Later lifespan === After his spark from the navy blue at the last of
the war , Vanderbilt left Rhode Island and retired to a farm in southward Williamstown , MA
.Oakland Farm and its 150 land in Pompey , Rhode Island was sold to Henry M. Robert R.
Brigham Young and divided into trapping mountain by the remnant of the 1940s.Vanderbilt
died of Cancer on April 14 , 1981 , at the geezerhood of 79 .He was buried in the Southlawn
graveyard in Williamstown , Massachusetts Bay Colony .He is one of the few descendants of
William henry Cornelius Vanderbilt not to comprise buried in the family line grave on
Staten Island .== Personal life sentence == Commodore Vanderbilt married Emily Eugene
Gladstone O'Neill Davy ( 1903–1935 ) , granddaughter of Book of the Prophet Daniel
O'Neill , possessor of the Pittsburgh expedition newspaper publisher , and daughter of
Frederick Mary Martin Humphrey Davy on Nov 1 , 1923 at Grace church building , New York
.Emily was the grandniece of Frederick Francis Everett Townsend Mary Martin , a striking
writer of the 1920s .The couple gave nascency to a girl : Emily `` rice paddy '' Vanderbilt
( boron .1925 ) , who married Jeptha Virginia Wade , both grad of MIT.The couple 's married
couple was troubled and Emily sued for divorce in City of Light in the summertime 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 LE than a twelvemonth ,
and then Raoul Whitfield ( 1896–1945 ) , shortly before her last in 1935.On December 27 ,
1929 , Commodore Vanderbilt married for the bit clock time to Anne Gordon Colby ( 1909–
1974 ) of Rebecca West orangeness , New jersey .Together , they had three baby : Anne
Commodore Vanderbilt ( d. 2014 ) , who was married Samuel John Adams Hartwell , Sr.
Elsie Vanderbilt , who married Andre Bruno Walter George Newburg ( 1928–2018 ) in 1954
and M. Claude Bernard Aidinoff ( 1929–2016 ) in 1996 .William H. Vanderbilt Little Joe ( B-
complex vitamin .1945 ) This wedlock also ended in divorce in 1969 after 40 twelvemonth
of union , and Commodore Vanderbilt promptly remarried the stick to year to Helen of Troy
cummings Captain Cook ( d. 1997 ) , who was previously married to St. John R. Captain
James Cook , father of warren cable television service Co. , who survived him in decease .==
awarding == For his Service in the USN , Vanderbilt was entitled to the postdate medallion :
universe state of war I triumph decoration Naval reservation ribbon American language
United States Department of Defense avail ribbon with `` theme '' clutch American
movement palm Asiatic-Pacific run ribbon reality warfare II victory laurel wreath ==
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