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

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politician who represented California in the

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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

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. He received a BS in

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from

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in 1936 and an

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from

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in 1938. He also did graduate work at Stanford University.

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

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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

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Advisory Commission in 1959. In 1962 Veysey was elected to the California State Assembly for the 75th district serving from 1963 to 1971. In 1970 he was elected to

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and reelected in 1972. He was a delegate to the

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. In the Watergate year of 1974, he was narrowly defeated by Democratic

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Mayor James F. Lloyd. Between 1975 and 1977 he was Assistant Secretary for Civil Works for the

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

Death

Veysey died in 2001 while living in

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and is buried at Riverview Cemetery, in Brawley.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Veysey, Victor 1915 births 2001 deaths California Institute of Technology alumni California Institute of Technology faculty Harvard Business School alumni Republican Party members of the California State Assembly School board members in California People from Hemet, California Politicians from Los Angeles Stanford University alumni Stanford University faculty Ford administration personnel Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California 20th-century American politicians People from Brawley, California United States Navy personnel of World War II