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Victor Aloysius Meyers

Victor A. Meyers
President of the Senate Victor A. Meyers.jpg
Meyers in 1951
10th Secretary of State of Washington
In office
January 14, 1957 – January 11, 1965
Preceded by Earl Coe
Succeeded by Lud Kramer
11th Lieutenant Governor of Washington
In office
January 9, 1933 – January 12, 1953
Governor Clarence D. Martin
Arthur B. Langlie
Monrad C. Wallgren
Preceded by John Arthur Gellatly
Succeeded by Emmett T. Anderson
Personal details
Born (1897-09-07)September 7, 1897
Little Falls, Minnesota, U.S.
Died May 28, 1991(1991-05-28) (aged 93)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Political party Democratic

Victor Aloysius "Vic" Meyers (September 7, 1897 – May 28, 1991), known as "The Clown Prince of Politics" and "The Pagliacci of Politics", was a Seattle, Washington, jazz bandleader and Washington State Democratic Party politician. He served 20 years as the 11th Lt. Governor of Washington and an additional 8 years as the 10th Secretary of State of Washington.

Born in Little Falls, Minnesota, Meyers was the fifteenth of 16 children. His mother was a pianist; his father Morrison County treasurer. Meyers became a multi-instrumental musician, with drums as his first instrument.

His family moved to Oregon. In his teens, Meyers played drums professionally at a Seaside, Oregon hotel. At age 21 he put together a 10-piece band. In 1919 Meyers was given a 2-year contract to lead the house band at the Rose Room in Seattle’s Hotel Butler. The band enjoyed local success, and Butler's contract continued to be renewed. In 1923 Brunswick Records chose the group to record during the record company's West Coast field trip, the first records billed as "Vic Meyers Hotel Butler Orchestra". The band made further series of recordings for Brunswick the following year, and toured nationally before settling in Seattle, where he played on the radio. In 1927 his band first got a residency at the Trianon Ballroom in the Belltown/Denny Regrade area north of downtown Seattle's leading dance venue of the time, well known for its flouting of Prohibition.; the same year the band made the first of a series of recordings for Columbia Records which would continue through 1929. [2]


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