Roy H. McVicker

Roy Harrison McVicker was an American lawyer and World War II veteran who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1965 to 1967.

Early life and education

Born in Edgewater, Colorado, his parents were Reverend and Mrs. Roy H. McVicker. 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.

World War II

During the Second World War, he served in the United States Navy in the Southwest Pacific.

Career

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.
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 1964.

Congress

Mcvicker was narrowly elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress.

Later career

He was a contract consultant for the Agency for International Development in Denver, Colorado, 1967. He resumed the practice of law.

Personal life

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. He married a woman named Mary.

Death and legacy

He died of an incurable spinal column disease at his home in Westminster, Colorado on September 15, 1973. Documents from the Boulder Daily Camera are stored at the Carnegie Library in Boulder.