Pete Giesen
| Pete Giesen | |
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| Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the 25th district |
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In office January 8, 1964 – January , 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Felix E. Edmunds |
| Succeeded by | Steve Landes |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Arthur Rossa Giesen, Jr. August 8, 1932 Radford, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Elliott |
| Residence | Verona, Augusta Co., VA |
| Alma mater |
Yale University (B.A.) Harvard Business School M.B.A. |
| Profession | businessman, Professor |
Arthur Rossa "Pete" Giesen, Jr. (born August 8, 1932) is an American politician and businessman, who represented (part time) a district in the Blue Ridge Mountains including Waynesboro, Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican for more than three decades.
Giesen was born in Radford, Virginia on August 8, 1932 to Arthur Rossa Giesen and his wife Charlotte Caldwall Giesen during the Great Depression. He attended Yale University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1954. He then went on to earn his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1956.
Both of his parents served on the Radford city council, with his father serving as Radford's mayor for a time. During the Massive Resistance crisis, the Democratic Byrd Organization proposed the closure of Virginia's public schools in an effort to prevent racial desegregation required by the United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Giesen's mother was editor of the Women's page in the local newspaper, ran against the incumbent Byrd Democrat, and won election to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1958.
Pete Giesen married Patricia Elliot, with whom he has three sons and two daughters.
Giesen served as President and Treasurer of the Augusta Steel Corporation, as well as vice-president of the Giesen-Caldwell Agency, Inc. He later formed the New Options Group, Inc. in Waynesboro, Virginia and served on the executive boards of both the Augusta Steel Corporation and the Virginia-Central Valley Bank (that merged into Crestar Bank). Active in his Lutheran Church, he served on the national executive council from 1978-1982 as well as helped found the Innsbrook Kiwanis Club in 1990 (having previously been a member of the Verona Kiwanis Club).
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