School director of Putney, Vermont (1920-1937); Member, State house of representatives (1931-1935); Speaker, State house of representatives (1933-1935); Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1935-1937); Governor of Vermont (1937-1941); Senator, United States Senate (1941-1975); Chairman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
Oral History Interview (1964): Aiken, a long-serving Republican senator of Vermont, discusses his dealings with John F. Kennedy in the Senate and during the Kennedy administration on issues such as the Battle Act amendment, the Test Ban Treaty, the Passamaquoddy Project, wheat sales to Russia and Aiken's trip to Moscow, among other issues.