Background
Boatner, Victor Vincent was born on May 6, 1881 in Bethlehem, Mississippi, United States. Son of Franklin P. and Mary (Wills) Boatner.
Boatner, Victor Vincent was born on May 6, 1881 in Bethlehem, Mississippi, United States. Son of Franklin P. and Mary (Wills) Boatner.
Educated Mississippi College, Clinton, and Bowling Green (Kentucky) Business U.
With Yazo & Mississippi Valley Railroad 1901, chief dispatcher and trainmaster, 1906-1916, superintendent New Orleans division, Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 1916-August 1917, superintendent Memphis (Tennessee) division, August 1917-June 1921. President Peoria & Pekin Union Railway, 1921-1929. President Chicago Great Western Railroad, 1929-1931.
Appointed western regional director Federal Coordinator of Transportation, July 1933, and director of (regional coördination, June 15, 1934-June 15, 1936.
Railway consultant, also director and executive representative Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, June 15, 1936-January 1, 1942. Director Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad since 1942.
Executive representative Norfolk. Southern Railway, 1942-1947.
Director of railway transport, Office of Defense Transportation United States of America, Washington, District of Columbia, January 1942-April 1944, railway consultant since April 1944.
Mason (Shriner, Scottish Rite). Clubs: Old Elm, Chicago, Traffic (Chicago).
Married Ellen J. Kramer, 1946.