Description
Weston "Wes" Edward Vivian is a former politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Vivian was born in Newfoundland, Canada and moved to the United States with his parents on September 5, 1929, settling in Cranston, Rhode Island where he attended school. He served in the United States Navy as an enlisted man and officer from 1943 to 1946. He received a B.S. at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1945, and a M.S. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1949, and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1959. He was a candidate for city council of Ann Arbor from 1958 to 1959 and a research engineer and lecturer at the University of Michigan from 1951 to 1959. He was chairman of the Ann Arbor City Democratic Committee from 1959 to 1960. He was electronics engineer and consultant for various firms and institutions.
In 1964, Vivian was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 2nd congressional district to the 89th United States Congress, serving from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1967.
Born
October 25th, 1924 in Dominion of Newfoundland / Died: Dec 4th, 2020 - aged 96
Last Changes
2020/12/16
The celebrity has been marked as passed away
2014/09/19
New Address: Available to members only
2014/09/16
The Celebrity Name has been changed from Weston Vivian