Victor Veysey

Victor Veysey
1st Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
In office March 1975 – January 1977
President	Gerald Ford
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Michael Blumenfeld
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 43rd district
In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975
Preceded by	District created
Succeeded by	Clair Burgener
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 38th district
In office January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1973
Preceded by	John V. Tunney
Succeeded by	George Brown, Jr.
Personal details
Born	Victor Vincent Veysey April 14, 1915 Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
Died	February 13, 2001 (aged 85) Hemet, California, U.S.
Resting place	Riverview Cemetery Brawley, California, U.S.
Political party	Republican

Victor Vincent Veysey (April 14, 1915 – February 13, 2001) was an American Republican politician.

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 Imperial Valley College Board in 1960 and a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Advisory Commission in 1959.

In 1963 Veysey was elected to the California State Assembly. 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. "Veysey, Victor Vincent, (1915 - 2001)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
2. "Victor V. Veysey". Oral History Project (Interview). Interview with Shirley K. Cohen. California Institute of Technology. February 4, 1994. Retrieved November 25, 2016.

External links

• United States Congress. "Victor Veysey (id: V000093)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.