Roy H. McVicker

Roy Harrison McVicker ( born February 20, 1924 in Edgewater, Jefferson County, Colorado, † September 15, 1973 in Westminster, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roy McVicker attended the Denver South High School, the University of Denver, Columbia College and the Columbia Law School, where he received his law degree in 1950. In his early years he was a minister in a Methodist church. During the Second World War McVicker served in the U.S. Navy in the southwest Pacific. In the years 1946 and 1947 he worked at the Colorado State College as an assistant professor of psychology. After that, he was from 1950 to 1951 member of the Admiral Nimitz Commission, which dealt with internal security and civil rights issues.

After his 1950 was admitted as a lawyer McVicker worked from 1953 to 1964 in Wheat Ridge in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1956 and 1964 he was a member of the Senate from Colorado. In 1964 he was selected in the second district of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he replaced Donald G. Brotzman from the Republican Party on January 3, 1965. Since he lost against Brotzman in the elections of 1966, McVicker was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1967. After the end of his time in Congress McVicker worked as a consultant for the Agency for International Development in Denver. After that, he was a lawyer again.