Gerald Ford gave it up to become Vice President of the United States (he ascended to the presidency a few months later). Sawyer had defeated Ford's predecessor, Richard Vander Veen in 1976, but had faced some of the closest races the district had seen in memory. In 1984, however, the district reverted to form, and Henry won with 62 percent of the vote. He was re-elected three more times without serious difficulty. After redistricting due to the United States 1990 Census, his district was renumbered as the 3rd district. Henry served in Congress for 8½ years, from January 3, 1985 until his death. In the House of Representatives, Henry served on the committees on Education and Labor, Science, Space and Technology, and the Select Committee on Aging. He was known for opposing federal funding of offensive artwork, but he did not join other Republicans who sought the complete defunding of federal support for the arts. Death In October 1992, two weeks before election day, Henry was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He underwent surgery a few days before he was re-elected to his fifth term in Congress. He regained strength briefly and was able to attend his swearing into the 103rd Congress on January 3, 1993, but then began to decline again. Paul Henry died in Grand Rapids on July 31, 1993, at the age of 51, after having brain cancer for nine months. He was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Grand Rapids. Legacy Henry was succeeded in Congress by Vern Ehlers, a fellow faculty member at Calvin College who had also succeeded Henry in the state senate. Henry Hall at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids is named after Paul B. Henry. It houses the Biology department, three lecture halls, and several computer labs. The Paul B. Henry Congressional Internship supports a student from GVSU to work in the Washington, D.C. office of a member of the Michigan delegation with a scholarship from the Paul B. Henry Foundation. M-6, a highway on the south side of Grand Rapids connecting Interstate 96 and Interstate 196, was named the Paul B. Henry Freeway. Construction on the highway began in 1997 and was completed in 2004, four years ahead of schedule. Calvin College established The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics in 1997 to continue the work of integrating Christian faith and politics advanced by its