Ovington Weller

Ovington Eugene Weller ( born January 23, 1862 in Reisterstown, Baltimore County, Maryland, † January 5, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate.

Life

After the public school visit Weller appeared in 1877 in the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis one where he graduated in 1881. It was followed by two years of military service in the U.S. Navy before being honorably discharged in 1883. In the same year, Weller enrolled at the National Law School. During his law studies, which he successfully completed in 1887, he worked as a clerk at the post office in Washington. In 1888 he was admitted to the Bar Association.

Weller worked in the first episode as a solicitor before he worked as a banker and industrialist and eventually joined a stock brokerage firm. After he had quit there in 1901, he retired into private life first and traveled a lot.

Public offices and politics

In 1912 Ovington Weller became chairman of the Public Roads Commission of Maryland. Three years later, the Republicans presented to him as a candidate for election as Governor of Maryland, but he was defeated by Democratic candidate Emerson Harrington with 48.2 percent of the vote.

Between 1918 and 1920, Weller served as treasurer of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, before he took himself in the election to the U.S. Senate in 1920. He sat down with a vote share 47.3 percent against the Democratic incumbent John Walter Smith ( 43.3 percent) by and took office on March 4, 1921. He was in consequence one of the Chairmen of the Committee on Manufactures. After six years, he joined for re-election, but was defeated by Democrat Millard Tydings and had on March 3, 1927 from the Senate retire.

Ovington Weller returned to Maryland and worked until his death in 1947 as an attorney in Baltimore. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.