Claude Weaver

Claude Weaver ( born March 19, 1867 in Gainesville, Texas, † May 19, 1954 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the eighth election district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Claude Weaver attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Texas at Austin Jura. After his made ​​in 1887 admitted to the bar he began in his hometown of Gainesville to work in his new profession. In 1892, he was also deputy district attorney in Cooke County.

In 1895, Weaver moved to Pauls Valley in what was then Indian Territory, where he also worked as a lawyer. Since 1902 he has been resident for a further move to Oklahoma City. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1912, he was as their candidate in the then newly created eighth district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he was able to complete a term of between 4 March 1913 and 3 March 1915. In 1914, he was no longer nominated by his party for another term. His seat fell after the elections to the Republican Dick Thompson Morgan.

1919 Weaver competed unsuccessfully in a special election for a return to the U.S. Congress. Between 1915 and 1923 he was postmaster in Oklahoma City and in 1926 he was Acting District Attorney in Oklahoma County. Between 1931 and 1934 he acted as legal advisor and private secretary to Governor William H. Murray. After that, he was from 1934 to 1935 district judge in the 13th Judicial District of Oklahoma. The rest of his life working as a lawyer Weaver. He died in 1954 in Oklahoma City and was also buried there.

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