Victor H. Fazio

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Victor Fazio

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 3rd district
In office 1979 - 1999
Preceded by	Robert Leggett
Succeeded by	Doug Ose

Born	October 11, 1942 Winchester, Massachusetts
Political party	Democratic

Victor Herbert Fazio, Jr. (b. October 11, 1942) was a Democratic congressman from California.

Born to an Italian-American family [1] in Winchester, Massachusetts, Fazio graduated from Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1961. He earned a B.A. from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1965, and did graduate work at California State University in Sacramento, California from 1969 to 1972. He was a congressional and legislative consultant from 1966 to 1975, during which time he co-founded California Journal magazine in 1970. He served on the Sacramento County Charter Commission from 1972 to 1974, the Sacramento County Planning Commission in 1975, and as a member of the California State Assembly from 1975 to 1978.

Fazio was a delegate to California state Democratic conventions in 1976 and 1978, and was a delegate to Democratic National Conventions of 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996. He was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979 to January 3, 1999) for California's 3rd congressional district. He did not run for re-election for the One Hundred Sixth Congress in 1998.

Fazio currently works in the Washington office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and sits on the board of Northrop Grumman.