Victor Veysey

Victor Vincent Veysey ( born April 14, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, † February 13, 2001 in Hemet, California ) was an American politician. Between 1971 and 1975 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Victor Veysey studied until 1936 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He then enrolled at Harvard University until 1938, and at times at Stanford University. In the years 1938 to 1940 and from 1941 to 1946 he taught at Caltech. In between he taught between 1940 and 1941 at Stanford. Later, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. Between 1955 and 1962 he was a member of the Education Committee in Brawley. Since 1960 to 1962 he was also a member of the College Committee of the Imperial Valley. In addition, Veysey in the years 1959 to 1963 was a member of an advisory committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. From 1963 to 1971 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. In August 1972 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, was nominated to the President Richard Nixon for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1970 Veysey was the 38th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John V. Tunney on January 3, 1971. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1975 two legislative sessions. Since 1973 he represented there, the then newly established 43 district of his state. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. In 1974 he was not re-elected. Between 1975 and 1977 he worked in the Department of the Army in the department of civil works. In 1983, Victor Veysey was Minister for Industrial Relations, the state government of California. He died on 13 February 2001 in Hemet.