Walter Lewis McVey, Jr.

Walter Lewis McVey, Jr. ( born February 19, 1922 in Independence, Montgomery County, Kansas ) is a retired American politician. Between 1961 and 1963 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter McVey went through the public schools and graduated in 1940 from high school. He attended for two years the Independence Junior College. His apprenticeship was interrupted by the Second World War, where he participated in 1943-1946 in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war he studied until 1948 at the University of Kansas, among others, Jura. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in the city of Independence to work in his new profession.

Politically, McVey has been a member of the Republican Party. In 1952 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the upcoming congressional elections. Between 1949 and 1952 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kansas. After that, he was until 1956 a judge at the municipal court of Independence. Between 1957 and 1960, McVey was a member of the Senate of Kansas.

1960 McVey was in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Denver David Hargis of the Democratic Party on January 3, 1961. Since he was not re-nominated for the elections of the year 1962 by his party, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1963.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives McVey worked as a management consultant in Washington. From 1964 to 1965 he was leader of the Republicans in Fulton County, Georgia. Since 1965 he has practiced in Atlanta, capital of Georgia, as a lawyer. McVey was a professor of political science at Georgia State University and Mercer University. Since 1968 to 2001 he was dean at DeKalb College. He now lives in Atlanta in retirement.

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