Honorable Vernon J. Ehlers
United States Representative, Michigan, Republican
Representative Ehlers, of the Third District of Michigan, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993. A former research physicist, he conducted scientific research at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he was a NATO Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He then spent six years at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and as Lecturer in physics at the University of California at Berkeley. He moved to Calvin College in 1966 where he taught physics and later became chairman of the Physics Department. He served as a member of the Kent County, Michigan, Commission from 1975 to 1982, and as Chairman…
