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 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.
In 1963 Veysey became a member of the California State Assembly as a delegate to the 1972 Republican National Convention, in 1970 he was elected to congress. He was reelected in 1972, but was subsequently redistricted to a new district. In the Watergate year of 1974, he was narrowly defeated by Democratic West Covina Mayor James F. Lloyd.
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.
Veysey died in 2001 while living in Hemet and is buried at Riverview Cemetery, in Brawley.
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