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词条 Victor Veysey
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{{Infobox politician
|name=Victor Veysey
|image=Victor Veysey.gif
|birthname=Victor Vincent Veysey
|birth_date={{birth date|1915|4|14}}
|birth_place=Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1]
|death_date={{death date and age|2001|2|13|1915|4|14}}
|death_place=Hemet, California, U.S.
|resting_place=Riverview Cemetery
Brawley, California, U.S.
|president=Gerald Ford
|order=1st
|office=Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
|term_start=March 1975
|term_end=January 1977
|predecessor=None
|successor=Michael Blumenfeld
|office1 = Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from California
|term_start1 = January 3, 1971
|term_end1 = January 3, 1975
|predecessor1 = John V. Tunney (38th)
|successor1 = George Brown Jr. (38th)
Clair Burgener (43rd)
|constituency1 = 38th district (1971–73)
43rd district (1973–75)
|party=Republican
}}

Victor Vincent Veysey (April 14, 1915 – February 13, 2001) was an American Republican politician.

Education

Born in 1915 in Los Angeles, California, Veysey grew up in Brawley and Eagle Rock, graduating from Eagle Rock High School.[2] He received a BS in civil engineering from Caltech in 1936 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1938.[2] He also did graduate work at Stanford University.[1]

Career

Veysey was a professor at Caltech from 1938 to 1940 and from 1941 to 1946, and at Stanford University from 1940 to 1941.

He subsequently moved to the Imperial Valley where he farmed.

He became a member of the Brawley School Board in 1955, a member of the Imperial Valley College Board in 1960 and a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Advisory Commission in 1959.

In 1963 Veysey was elected to the California State Assembly. In 1970 he was elected to congress and reelected in 1972. He was a delegate to the 1972 Republican National Convention. In the Watergate year of 1974, he was narrowly defeated by Democratic West Covina Mayor James F. Lloyd.

Between 1975 and 1977 he was Assistant Secretary for Civil Works for the U.S. Army.

In 1983, he was Secretary for Industrial Relations for the State of California.

Veysey died in 2001 while living in Hemet and is buried at Riverview Cemetery, in Brawley.

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=Veysey, Victor Vincent, (1915 - 2001) |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000093 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |accessdate=November 25, 2016}}
2. ^{{cite interview |title=Victor V. Veysey |interviewer=Shirley K. Cohen |url= http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechOH:OH_Veysey_V |work=Oral History Project |publisher=California Institute of Technology |date=February 4, 1994 |accessdate=November 25, 2016}}

External links

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