Walter Lewis McVey Jr. (February 19, 1922 – September 10, 2014) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, McVey was educated in the public schools and graduated from high school in 1940. He attended Independence Junior College for two years and graduated from the

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with an A.B. in 1947 and a J.D. in 1948. He was

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and commenced the practice of law in Independence. During

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, McVey served in the

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from 1943 to 1946 and was discharged as a staff sergeant. He served as a member of the

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from 1949 until 1952, as judge of the city court of Independence from 1952 until 1956, and as a member of the

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from 1957 until 1960. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for the Eighty-third Congress in 1952. McVey was elected as a Republican to the

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(January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963). McVey had an affair with a secretary from his office during the first year of his term, prompting his wife, Rose Mary, to return to Kansas and file for divorce. He was unable to win nomination in 1962 to run for re-election to the Eighty-eighth Congress. Following his Congressional stint, McVey worked as a

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from 1963 until 1964 and as executive director of the

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, Republican Party from June 1964 until September 1965. He served as staff counsel to the Georgia Municipal Association from November 1965 until April 1966. He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1965 and commenced the practice of law in

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. McVey was a professor of

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in Atlanta from 1968 until 1980 and at

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in Atlanta from 1971 until 1973. He was also evening dean of

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in Dunwoody from 1968 until 2001. McVey was a resident of Olathe, Kansas. He died on September 10, 2014, aged 92.

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