Thomas A. E. Weadock

Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock ( born January 1, 1850 in Ballygarret, County Wexford, Ireland, † November 18, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his childhood came Thomas Weadock with his parents to the United States, where the family settled on a farm near St. Marys, Ohio. He attended the public schools of his new home and taught himself after five years as a teacher. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1873 admitted to the bar he began in Bay City (Michigan) to work in his new profession. Between 1874 and 1877 Weadock was also a member of the state militia of Michigan. In the years 1877 and 1878 he served as a prosecutor in Bay County.

Politically Weadock was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1883 and 1894 he headed the regional Democratic Party days in Michigan. From 1883 to 1885 was Weadock mayor of Bay City. In this city he was also a member of the Education Committee in 1884. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was in the tenth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frank W. Wheeler on March 4, 1891. After a re-election in 1892 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions. Since 1893 he was Chairman of the Mining Committee. In 1894 Weadock renounced a new Congress candidacy.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Weadock again worked as a lawyer in Bay City. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate. Later he transferred his residence and his law firm to Detroit. In 1904 he applied unsuccessfully for a judgeship on the Michigan Supreme Court in 1912, he was professor of law at the University of Detroit. In 1933 he was appointed despite his advanced age of 83 years is now a judge of the Supreme Court of his State. Thomas Weadock died on November 18, 1938 in Detroit, and was buried in Bay City.

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