Albert Lincoln Vreeland (July 2, 1901 – May 3, 1975) was an American Republican Party

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who represented

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's 11th congressional district from 1939 to 1943.

Biography

He was born in

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. He attended the public schools and was employed as an

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driver for the

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in 1918 and 1919. Later, he graduated from the New York Electrical School in

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in 1919, the

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) in 1925. Vreeland was admitted to the bar in 1927 and commenced practice in

. He served as the assistant city counsel and city prosecutor of East Orange 1929-1934 and the judge of the recorder's court of East Orange 1934-1938. He was elected as a

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to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses, serving in office from January 3, 1939 to January 3, 1943. Vreeland was a captain in the

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and on December 9, 1941, was granted leave of absence from the

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to go on active duty to serve in

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. He was assigned to the

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Section of the War Department. He was transferred to the Seventy-sixth Infantry Division in April 1942 and commissioned a major in Infantry on July 17, 1942. On July 18, 1942, by Presidential directive, was ordered back to the House of Representatives. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the

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. After leaving Congress, he reentered the Army on January 4, 1943, and served two years in

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and

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. He was commissioned a

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on August 27, 1944, and ordered to inactive duty August 27, 1945, as a colonel, A.I., USAR (retired). After the war, he was the police commissioner of East Orange, New Jersey 1945-1951. He was also the public relations officer for the

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from 1945-1946. He resumed the practice of law and died in

Orange, New Jersey The City of Orange is a township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the township's population was 30,134, reflecting a decline of 2,734 (−8.3%) from the 32,868 counted in 2000. Orange was original ...

in 1975. He was buried in Glendale Cemetery,

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.Albert Lincoln Vreeland

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. Accessed August 22, 2007.

References

External links

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