Stanley L. Greigg

Stanley Lloyd Greigg ( born May 7, 1931 in Ireton, Iowa, † June 13, 2002 in Salem, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stanley Greigg visited until 1954, the Morningside College in Sioux City. Then he studied until 1956 at Syracuse University in Syracuse (New York). Between 1957 and 1959 Greigg soldier was in the U.S. Navy. He then taught himself at Morningside College, the subjects rhetoric and history. He was also a faculty dean there.

Greigg was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1961 he was elected to the City Council of Sioux City, in 1964 he became mayor. In the congressional elections of 1964 he was in the sixth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1965 to the succession of Republican Charles B. Hoeven. His election victory was part of a nationwide trend in favor of the Democrats. Two years later he was defeated Wiley Mayne. Therefore, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1965. This was overshadowed by the events surrounding the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.

Between 1967 and 1969, was Greigg director of the regional branch of the Postal Ministry (Office of Regional Administration). From 1970 to 1972 he officiated deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In this capacity, he was confronted on 17 June 1972 as one of the first with the Watergate affair, because the burglars in the Watergate Hotel haunted the rooms of his secretary. Greigg filed a criminal complaint then. The case led in August 1974 to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

In 1972 Greigg supported the presidential campaign of George McGovern. He also was director of the Lawrence F. O'Brien Center at the Dag Hammarskjold College in Columbia. Between 1975 and 1998 he was director of the Office of Government agencies across relationships (Office of Intergovernmental Relations ) in the Financial Division of the Congress. Stanley Greigg died in June 2002 in Salem, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.