Victor Silas Bryant, Jr. was born on September 29, 1898, in Durham, North Carolina. Bryant—an attorney with Bryant, Brogden & Bryant, of Durham—was a corporal in the Durham Machine Gun Company which helped put down a lynch mob in Alamance County in July 1920. He served five terms in the General Assembly between 1923 and 1941. He died in Durham on September 17, 1980.