[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6965]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO CONGRESSMAN AL CEDERBERG

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                          HON. DALE E. KILDEE

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, May 3, 2006

  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to join my Congressional 
colleagues from Michigan to pay tribute to the life and service of 
former Congressman Elford Albin `Al' Cederberg. Congressman Cederberg, 
a Republican who represented mid-Michigan in Congress from 1953 through 
1978, passed away on Monday, April 17, 2006 at the age of 88.
  Born in Bay City, Michigan, March 6, 1918, Congressman Cederberg 
attended public schools and Bay City Junior College from 1935-1937. He 
entered the United States Army in April 1941 and was commissioned a 
second lieutenant in July 1942, and later a captain in 1943. Assigned 
to the Eighty-third Infantry, Cederberg participated in the Normandy 
invasion and fought in France and Germany.
  After returning home from Europe at the end of World War Two, 
Congressman Cederberg served as manager of Nelson Manufacturing Co. of 
Bay City, Michigan from 1946-1952, and he was elected mayor of Bay City 
from 1949-1953.
  In 1952, Cederberg was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives 
to the Eighty-third Congress and to the twelve succeeding Congresses. 
During his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to the 
distinguished position of Ranking Republican Member of the 
Appropriations Committee. He and former President, and former House 
Minority Leader Gerald Ford, were close personal friends who stayed in 
contact long after both had left public service.
  Mr. Speaker, I am honored to have known and served with Congressman 
Cederberg here in the U.S. House of Representatives. His integrity and 
his sense of decency were admired by all who came in contact with him. 
His love for his country, for his State of Michigan and for his 
hometown of Bay City were well known. Without a doubt, Mr. Speaker, our 
nation, our state, and our communities are better places in which to 
live because of the stellar public service of Congressman Elford Albin 
`Al' Cederberg. The Members of this Congress could greatly benefit from 
the shining example of Elford Albin `Al' Cederberg.

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