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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaVictor Laurence August CHRISTGAU
(1894-1991)
CHRISTGAU, Victor Laurence
August, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Dexter
Township, Mower County, near Austin, Minn., September 20, 1894;
attended the rural schools and the high school at Austin; was
graduated from the school of agriculture of the University of
Minnesota at St. Paul in 1917 and from its college of agriculture
in 1923; engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the First World
War served overseas in the United States Army as a sergeant in the
Thirty-third Regiment of Engineers; member of the State senate from
1927 until his resignation in 1929; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3,
1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed
agricultural pursuits; appointed executive assistant to the
director of production, Division of Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, in June 1933, and director of the Production
Division and assistant administrator in January 1934, serving until
February 1935; was appointed State administrator of the Minnesota
Works Progress Administration in June 1935 and served until June
1938; State director of the Minnesota division of employment and
security at St. Paul, Minn., 1939-1954; president of the Interstate
Conference Employment Security Agencies in 1947 and 1948; Director,
Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Social Security
Adminstration, 1954-1963, and executive director of Social Security
Administration from January 1963 to March 1967; was a resident of
Washington, D.C., until his death there on October 10, 1991.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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