• Office Sought: Representative, Arkansas (2)
• Birth Date: Sept. 27, 1947
• Occupation: Physician
• Religion: Presbyterian
• Web site: http://www.house.gov/snyder

Education

• University of Arkansas, JD
• University of Oregon, MD
• Willamette University, BA

Vic Snyder was born September 27, 1947 in Medford, Ore. After graduating from Medford High School, Snyder attended college at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. Between his sophomore and junior years at Willamette, Snyder volunteered for the Marine Corps, in which he served from 1967 to 1969, eventually earning the rank of corporal.

He served for one year in Vietnam with Headquarters Company, First Marine Division. In 1973, Snyder returned to college at Willamette University.

He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1975. He then attended medical school at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, where he earned his medical degree in 1979.

Following medical school, Snyder moved from Oregon to Little Rock, where he was a family practice resident at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

He finished his residency in 1982 and worked as a family practice physician in central Arkansas for more than 15 years. During this time, Snyder took part in several medical missions to developing countries, including work in Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand, Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras, a West African mission hospital in Sierra Leone, and an Ethiopian refugee camp in Sudan.

While continuing to practice medicine, he earned a law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law in 1988.

In July 2003, Snyder married a Methodist minister, the Rev. Betsy Singleton, pastor of Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church. They have one child.