Raymond Ezekiel Vickery Jr. (born April 30, 1942) is an American attorney and politician. From 1974 to 1980, he served as a Democratic member of the

Virginia House of Delegates The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-number ...

. Rather than seek reelection in 1979, he challenged incumbent Charles Waddell for the Democratic nomination in Virginia's 33rd Senate district. In 1992, he unsuccessfully ran for Congress against Frank Wolf. An expert on

India–United States relations Relations between India and the United States date back to India's independence movement and have continued well after independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. Currently, India and the United States enjoy close relations and have often s ...

, he served as United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development under

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vickery, Ray 1942 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates 20th-century American politicians Duke University alumni Harvard Law School alumni