September 27, 1947

Vic Snyder was born in Medford, Oregon. Snyder served seven terms in the U.S. Congress representing Arkansas’s Second Congressional District. Snyder’s experiences in the U.S. Marine Corps, as a family physician, and as a lawyer helped shape his career in government service. In Congress, Snyder served on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the House Armed Services Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. In 2007, he was elected chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Snyder was the only member of the Arkansas delegation in the House to vote against the 2003 resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq. In 2009, he was also the lone Arkansas congressional delegate to vote in support of climate-change legislation.