Victor "Vic" Frederick Snyder was born in Medford, Oregon, on September 27, 1947.
In 1965 Snyder entered college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon . Two years later h e enliste d in the U nited S tates Marine Corps and spent a year in Vietnam . He returned to Willamette University and earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1975 and his M.D. from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland, Oregon, in 1979 .
Snyder served his residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences , which included working with refugees and rural populations overseas . H e practiced general medicine in Little Rock before attending law school at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock , where he received his law degree in 1988 and continued to practice medicine . In 1990 Snyder was elected to the A rkansas State Senate, an office he held until 1996 when he was elected to the U nited S tates House of Representatives . Snyder stepped down in 2011 and accepted a position with Arkansas Blue Cross in Little Rock.
#1: Composite image of early photo of Vic Snyder and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Vic Snyder's maternal great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bloomingcamp
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#3: Vic Snyder's maternal grandparents, Fred and Minnie Bloomingcamp
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#4: Vic Snyder's mother, Marjorie (left), and her siblings, Charles, Elsie Berniece "Bee," and Gertrude Bloomingcamp
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#5: Vic Snyder's grandparents, Fred and Minnie Bloomingcamp, with their children: (left to right) Snyder's mother, Marjorie; Charles; Gertrude; and Elsie Berniece "Bee"
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#6: Vic Snyder's maternal grandparents, Minnie and Fred Bloomingcamp
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#7: Vic Snyder's father, Don Snyder, in the United States Army
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#8: Vic Snyder's family: (back row, from left) Kate, Grandpa Fred Bloomingcamp, Emma, Grandma Bloomingcamp, Charles, and Ed; (front row, from left) Mike, Gertie, Bee, Dell, Marjorie, Elsie, and Don; at Bogus Bloomingcamp Ranch; 1946
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#9: Vic Snyder's mother, Marjorie Bloomingcamp Snyder
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#10: Vic Snyder's mother, Marjorie Bloomingcamp Snyder
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#11: Vic Snyder's uncle, Charles Bloomingcamp
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#12: Vic Snyder at 4 months of age
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#13: Vic Snyder with his aunt
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#14: Vic Snyder as a baby
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#15: Vic Snyder with his sister, Karen
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#16: Vic Snyder with his sister, Karen (left), and their cousin
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#17: Vic Snyder with his sister, Karen
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#18: Vic Snyder with his sister, Karen
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#19: Vic Snyder with his mother, Marjorie, and sister, Karen
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#20: Vic Snyder with his Boy Scout troop
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#21: Vic Snyder with his mother, Marjorie, and sister, Karen
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#22: Vic Snyder's high-school photo
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#23: Certificate of Appreciation to Vic Snyder from the Chicano Culture Club at Oregon State Penitentiary
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#24: Vic Snyder
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#25: Vic Snyder's Arkansas State Medical Board certificate, 1981
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#26: Vic Snyder, M.D.
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#27: Vic Snyder overseas
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#28: Vic Snyder (left)
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#29: Vic Snyder (left)
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#30: Vic Snyder (left)
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#31: Vic Snyder's mother, Marjorie, with his uncle, Charles Bloomingcamp, September 1990
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#32: Vic Snyder (right) with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
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#33: Vic Snyder, right, with Bill Clinton
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#34: Vic Snyder (right) with Fidel Castro
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#35: Vic Snyder with his dog
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#36: Vic Snyder (left) with Prime Minister Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan
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#37: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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#38: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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#39: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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#40: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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#41: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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#42: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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#43: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Vic Snyder; Little Rock, Arkansas, 2012
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