Archibald J. Weaver

Archibald Jerard Weaver ( born April 15, 1843 in Dundaff, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, † April 18, 1887 in Falls City, Nebraska) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Archibald Weaver attended the public schools of his home and then the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston. From 1864 to 1867 he was there to self -teaching. After studying law at the Law School of Harvard University, he was admitted to the bar in 1869. In the same year he moved to Falls City, Nebraska, where he held his new profession.

Weaver joined the Republican Party. In the years 1871 and 1875 he was a member of meetings to revise the Constitution of Nebraska. In 1872 he was district attorney for the first judicial district of this state. In the same area he was in 1875 District Judge. This office he held until 1883.

1882 Weaver was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he succeeded Edward K. Valentine took up on March 4, 1883, who moved into the third constituency. After a re-election in 1884, Weaver 1887, two terms could pass in Congress until March 3. In 1886 he abandoned a renewed bid for the House of Representatives; Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After retiring from Congress Archibald Weaver worked for a short time as a lawyer. He died in April 1887, six weeks after the end of his term in Congress.