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Victor Aloysius Meyers
Victor Aloysius "Vic" Meyers (September 7, 1897 – May 28, 1991), known as "The Clown Prince of Politics" and "The Pagliacci of Politics",〔Don Duncan, (Vic Meyers' Main Legacy Is Laughter -- Quick Wit, Wild Stunts Marked His Long Career ) ''Seattle Times'', May 29, 1991. Accessed online 23 August 2008〕 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.〔Michael Hood, (Meyers, Victor A. (1898-1991) ), HistoryLink, December 4, 2007]. Accessed online 23 August 2008〕〔()〕
==Youth and musical career==
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.〔(Anonymous), "The Late Hotel Butler", ''Seattlife'', April 1939. Page unknown, this was in a clipping file on Meyers at the Seattle Public Library.〕 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. ()
Meyers' compositions as a musician included "Ada", composed with Harold Weeks and Danny Cann; "Isle of Dreams", composed with Weeks and Oliver Wallace; and "I'm Happy Now That You're Gone", composed with Al Thompson and Harry Von Tilzer.〔Don Duncan, (Musical Tribute To Vic Meyers: Public Servant And Funny Guy ), ''Seattle Times'', April 9, 1990. Accessed online 24 August 2008.〕
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