Victor C. Heck Papers

Collection

Identifier: MU-PP-0043

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Victor C. Heck collection consists of three general topics: research and writing, book reviews by Heck, and tobacco litigation for which Heck testified.

Dates

Creation: 1947-1965

Rights Statement

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Biographical / Historical

A native of Sacramento, California, Victor C. Heck received his bachelor of science and master’s degrees from the University of California and did graduate work at Cornell University. In 1940-1941, he served as a Brookings Institute Fellow in Washington, D.C. During WWII, Heck was a member of the auxiliary foreign service of the State Department and served for three years as a civil attaché at the American Embassy in San José, Costa Rica, after which he served for eighteen months as vice consul at the U.S. consulate in Salonika, Greece. From 1947 to 1949 he taught at Vanderbilt University and was then named professor at Mercer University. At the time of his death in 1966, he was Stetson Professor of Economics and chair of the Economics Department.