Victor H. Fazio

Victor Herbert Fazio ( born October 11, 1942 in Winchester, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1979 and 1999 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Victor Fazio attended until 1960, the Madison High School in New Jersey and then to 1961 the Williston Academy in Easthampton. Then he studied until 1965 at Union College in Schenectady (New York). He finished his education in 1972 at California State University, Sacramento. Between 1966 and 1975 he was Congress and government advisor. In 1970, Fazio was co-founder of the California Journal Magazine. From 1972 to 1975 he was a member of various committees in Sacramento County. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. From 1975 to 1978 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. In the years 1976 and 1978 he was a delegate to the regional party days of the Democrats in California; 1976 to 1996 he took part in all Democratic National Conventions.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Fazio was in the fourth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert L. Leggett on January 3, 1979. After nine elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1999 ten legislative periods. Since 1993 he represented there as a successor to Bob Matsui the third district of his state. In 1998, Victor Fazio gave up another candidacy. Today he is a consultant to a law firm and board member of the company Northrop Grumman.

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