Jessica M. Weis

Jessica McCullough Weis ( born July 8, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois; † May 1, 1963 in Rochester, New York) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1963, she represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jessica McCullough, so her maiden name, the Franklin School in Buffalo, Miss Wright 's School, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania ) and the Madam Rieffel 's School attended in New York City. In her youth she worked for several charities, including the Red Cross. Since the mid-1930s she was politically active in the Republican Party. She was a member of the Inter- American Commission of Women, and was 1937-1952 Deputy Republican district chairman in Monroe County. In the years 1940 and 1941 she served as president of the National Association of Republican Women ( National Federation of Republican Women). From 1944 to 1963 she was a member of the Republican National Committee. Between 1940 and 1956 she took part in all the Republican National Convention as a delegate. In the years 1953, 1956 and 1960 she was a member of the national civilian Defense ( National Civil Defense Advisory Council).

In the congressional elections of 1958, Weis became the 38th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of Kenneth Keating on January 3, 1959. After a re-election she was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1963 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Cold War and especially by the Cuban Missile Crisis and the events of the civil rights movement. Jessica Weis sat in the Committee on Government Operations, the Committee on the Administration of the Federal District District of Columbia and in the newly created Committee on Science and Space. Due to a cancer they renounced in 1962 on another candidacy.

Jessica Weis died on 1 May 1963 in Rochester, where she was also buried. She was married since 1921 with Charles William Weis, with whom she had three children.