Victor Veysey

Victor Veysey
1st Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
In office March 1975 – January 1977
President	Gerald Ford
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Michael Blumenfeld
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
In office January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975
Preceded by	John V. Tunney
Succeeded by	James F. Lloyd (redistricting)
Constituency	38th district (1971–73) 43rd district (1973–75)
Member of the California State Assembly from the 75th district
In office January 7, 1963 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by	Richard T. Hanna
Succeeded by	Raymond T. Seeley
Personal details
Born	Victor Vincent Veysey (1915-04-14)April 14, 1915 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	February 13, 2001(2001-02-13) (aged 85) Hemet, California, U.S.
Resting place	Riverview Cemetery Brawley, California, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Janet Donaldson (m. 1940)
Children	4
Military service
Branch/service	United States Navy
Battles/wars	World War II]

Victor Vincent Veysey (April 14, 1915 – February 13, 2001) was an American Republican politician who represented California in the United States House of Representatives for two terms from 1971 to 1975. From 1975 to 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army under President Gerald Ford.

Education

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

Career

Veysey as a State Assemblymember in 1963.

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.

Commissions and school boards

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.

State senate

In 1962 Veysey was elected to the California State Assembly for the 75th district serving from 1963 to 1971.

Congress

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.

Ford administration

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.

Death

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

Electoral history

1970 United States House of Representatives elections in California

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Victor Veysey	87,479	49.8
	Democratic	David A. Tunno	85,684	48.8
	American Independent	William E. Pasley	2,481	3.4
Total votes			175,644	100.0
	Republican gain from Democratic

1972 United States House of Representatives elections in California

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Victor Veysey (Incumbent)	117,781	62.7
	Democratic	Ernest Z. Robles	70,129	37.3
Total votes			187,910	100.0
	Republican win (new seat)

1974 United States House of Representatives elections in California

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	James F. Lloyd	60,709	50.3
	Republican	Victor Veysey (Incumbent)	60,102	49.7
Total votes			120,811	100.0
	Democratic gain from Republican

External links

• United States Congress. "Victor Veysey (id: V000093)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.