Victor Veysey

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Victor Veysey
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1st Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
In office
March 1975 – January 1977
PresidentGerald Ford
Preceded byNone
Succeeded byMichael Blumenfeld
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from California
In office
January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975
Preceded byJohn V. Tunney (38th)
Succeeded byGeorge Brown Jr. (38th)
Clair Burgener (43rd)
Constituency38th district (1971–73)
43rd district (1973–75)
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 75th district
In office
January 7, 1963 - January 3, 1971
Preceded byRichard T. Hanna
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born
Victor Vincent Veysey

(1915-04-14)April 14, 1915
Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
DiedFebruary 13, 2001(2001-02-13) (aged 85)
Hemet, California, U.S.
Resting placeRiverview Cemetery
Brawley, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)Janet Donaldson (m. 1940)
Children4
Military service
Branch/service United States Navy
Battles/warsWorld War II

Victor Vincent Veysey (April 14, 1915 – February 13, 2001) was an American Republican politician who represented California in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1975. From 1975 to 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army under President Gerald Ford.

Education[]

Born in 1915 in Los Angeles, California, Veysey grew up in Brawley and Eagle Rock, graduating from Eagle Rock High School.[2] He received a BS in civil engineering from Caltech in 1936 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1938.[2] He also did graduate work at Stanford University.[1]

Career[]

Veysey was a professor at Caltech from 1938 to 1940 and from 1941 to 1946, and at Stanford University from 1940 to 1941.

He subsequently moved to the Imperial Valley where he farmed.

He became a member of the Brawley School Board in 1955, a member of the in 1960 and a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Advisory Commission in 1959.

In 1962 Veysey was elected to the California State Assembly for the 75th district serving from 1963 to 1971.[3] In 1970 he was elected to congress and reelected in 1972. He was a delegate to the 1972 Republican National Convention. In the Watergate year of 1974, he was narrowly defeated by Democratic West Covina Mayor James F. Lloyd.

Between 1975 and 1977 he was Assistant Secretary for Civil Works for the U.S. Army.

In 1983, he was Secretary for Industrial Relations for the State of California.

Veysey died in 2001 while living in Hemet and is buried at Riverview Cemetery, in Brawley.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Veysey, Victor Vincent, (1915 - 2001)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Victor V. Veysey". Oral History Project (Interview). Interviewed by Shirley K. Cohen. California Institute of Technology. February 4, 1994. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  3. ^ "Join California - Victor Veysey". joincalifornia.com.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
John V. Tunney
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 38th congressional district

1971–1973
Succeeded by
George Brown, Jr.
New district Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from California's 43rd congressional district

1973–1975
Succeeded by
Clair Burgener
Government offices
Preceded by
New Office
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
March 1975–January 1977
Succeeded by
Michael Blumenfeld
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