Victor Veysey

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Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Victor Vincent Veysey (April 14, 1915 – February 13, 2001) was an American Republican politician who represented California in the United States House of Representatives for two terms 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.[1] He received a BS in civil engineering from Caltech in 1936 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1938.[1] He also did graduate work at Stanford University.[2]

Career

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Veysey as a State Assemblymember in 1963.

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.

Commissions and school boards

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.

State senate

In 1962 Veysey was elected to the California State Assembly for the 75th district serving from 1963 to 1971.[3]

Congress

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.

Ford administration

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.

Death

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

Electoral history

1970 United States House of Representatives elections in California[4]
Party Candidate Votes %
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1972 United States House of Representatives elections in California[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
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1974 United States House of Representatives elections in California[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
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References

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External links

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