Roy H. McVicker
Roy H. McVicker | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 2nd district | |
| In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967 | |
| Preceded by | Don Brotzman |
| Succeeded by | Don Brotzman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Roy Harrison McVicker February 20, 1924 Edgewater, Colorado |
| Died | September 15, 1973 (aged 49) |
| Political party | Democratic |
Roy Harrison McVicker (February 20, 1924 – September 15, 1973) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Born in Edgewater, Colorado, his parents were Reverend and Mrs. Roy H. McVicker.[2] McVicker was educated at South Denver High School, University of Denver, Columbia College, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1950. He was a lay preacher in the Methodist Church beginning at eighteen years of age.[1]
World War II
[edit]During the Second World War, he served in the United States Navy in the Southwest Pacific.[1]
Career
[edit]He served as assistant professor in psychology at Colorado State College in 1946 and 1947. He worked under President Harry Truman in establishment of the Admiral Nimitz Commission on Internal Security and Civil Rights in 1950 and 1951.[1]
He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1950, and practiced law in Wheat Ridge, Colorado from 1953 to 1964. He served as member of the State senate from 1956 to 64.[1]
Mcvicker was narrowly elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress.[1]
He was a contract consultant for the Agency for International Development in Denver, Colorado, 1967. He resumed the practice of law.[1]
Personal life
[edit]He married Harriet Ripley and they had one child together, Elizabeth. He adopted Harriet’s children from a previous marriage, William and Theresa. They divorced in 1968. Both Harriet and Roy remarried.[3] He married a woman named Mary.[4]
He died of an incurable spinal column disease at his home in Westminster, Colorado on September 15, 1973.[1][4] Documents from the Boulder Daily Camera are stored at the Carnegie Library in Boulder.[5]
References
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- United States Congress. "Roy H. McVicker (id: M000610)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- United States Congress. "Roy H. McVicker (id: M000610)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ Congress, United States; Michael, W. H. (1965). Official Congressional Directory. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 24.
- ^ "Roy H. McVicker family". Carnegie Library for Local History. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ^ a b "Roy McVicker Jr Obituary". Fort Collins Coloradoan. September 18, 1973. p. 17. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ^ "Roy McVicker printed materials [1940]-1973". Carnegie Library for Local History. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- 1924 births
- 1973 deaths
- People from Jefferson County, Colorado
- Columbia Law School alumni
- United States Navy personnel of World War II
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado
- American Methodist clergy
- Colorado State University faculty
- Democratic Party Colorado state senators
- Neurological disease deaths in Colorado
- Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United States
- 20th-century American legislators
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- 20th-century American clergy
- 20th-century Colorado politicians