Vern Voorhees | |
State House: | Michigan |
District: | Calhoun County 1st |
Term Start: | January 1, 1933 |
Term End: | December 11, 1934 |
Predecessor: | Hazen J. Hatch |
Successor: | Fred J. Houseman |
Birth Date: | 1878 |
Death Date: | December 11, 1934 |
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Vern Voorhees (1878-1934) was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was one of six members of the state House killed in the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing on December 11, 1934. Also killed were representatives Charles D. Parker, T. Henry Howlett, John W. Goodwine, Don E. Sias, and D. Knox Hanna, along with state senator John Leidlein. The men were in Lansing for a special session of the Michigan legislature.[1]