'''Robert Clymer Hendrickson''' ([[August 12]], [[1898]] -– [[December 7]], [[1964]]) was a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[New Jersey]]. Born in [[Woodbury, New Jersey]], he attended public schools and during the [[World War I|First World War]] enlisted in the [[United States Army]] in 1918 and served overseas. He graduated from [[Temple University Beasley School of Law|Temple University Law School]] in [[Philadelphia]] (1922) and was admitted to the New Jersey [[bar (law)|bar]], commencing practice in Woodbury. He held the office of [[county supervisor]] from 1929 to 1934, and was city solicitor of Woodbury in 1931. He was a member of the [[New Jersey Senate]] from 1934 to 1940, serving as president of the senate in 1939; he was an unsuccessful [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[Governor of New Jersey|Governor]] in 1940. He served as State treasurer from 1942 to 1948 and a member of board of managers of the Council of State Governments, in 1940, and was its chairman in 1941. He was vice chairman of Commission on [[Delaware River]] Basin from 1936 to 1951.
During the [[World War II|Second World War]] he enlistedrejoined the Army in 1943, was commissioned a major, served with the American Military Government in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1944, andeing separated from the service in 1946;. heHe was called back into active duty for the [[Korean War]] in 1951. In 1948, he was elected as a [[USRepublican|Republican]] to the U.S. Senate, and served from [[January 3]], [[1949]], to [[January 2]], [[1955]]; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1954. President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] appointed Hendrickson to the post of [[United States Ambassador to New Zealand]], which he held from [[February 16]], [[1955]] to [[November 20]], [[1956]]. He was a resident of Woodbury until his death in 1964; interment was in [[Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro|Eglington Cemetery]], [[Clarksboro, New Jersey]].
