Carl M. Weideman

Carl May Weideman ( born March 5, 1898 in Detroit, Michigan, † March 5, 1972 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carl Weideman attended the common schools and then studied until the American entry into the First World War at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Then he attended a military academy of the U.S. Navy in Ann Arbor. Between 1918 and 1922 he was a member of the reserve of these weapons. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new career in 1921 in Detroit. Politically, Weideman member of the Democratic Party, whose regional party days in Michigan, he attended as a delegate 1932-1944. In 1940 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term.

In the congressional elections of 1932 Weideman was in the then newly created 14th legislative district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1934, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. There, the first of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted at that time. The 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the 18th Amendment of 1919 was repealed, which had prohibited the trade of alcoholic beverages.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Carl Weideman first worked again as a lawyer in Detroit. Between 1937 and 1950 he served as a court commissioner ( Court Commissioner) in Wayne County; 1950-1968 he was a judge for the third judicial district of his state. Then he withdrew into retirement. Carl Weideman died on March 5, 1972, his 74th birthday, in Grosse Pointe Park and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.