Victor Christgau

Christgau born in Dexter Township, Mower County, near Austin, Minnesota; his mother and paternal grandparents were German immigrants.[1] He graduated from the school of agriculture of the University of Minnesota at St. Paul in 1917 and from its college of agriculture in 1923; engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the First World War served overseas in the United States Army as a sergeant in the Thirty-third Regiment of Engineers;

He was a member of the state senate from 1927 until his resignation in 1929; elected as a Republican to the 71st and 72nd congresses, (March 4, 1929 – March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed agricultural pursuits; appointed executive assistant to the director of production, Division of Agricultural Adjustment Administration, in June, 1933, and director of the Production Division and assistant administrator in January, 1934, serving until February, 1935; was appointed State administrator of the Minnesota Works Progress Administration in June 1935 and served until June, 1938; State director of the Minnesota division of employment and security at St. Paul, 1939 – 1954; president of the Interstate Conference Employment Security Agencies in 1947 and 1948; Director, Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Social Security Administration, 1954 – 1963, and executive director of Social Security Administration from January, 1963 to March, 1967; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on October 10, 1991.

• Minnesota Legislators Past and Present

• United States Congress. "Victor Christgau (id: C000378)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Victor Christgau: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society