Carl M. Weideman

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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 US House of Representatives .

Career

Carl Weideman attended the common schools and studied thereafter until the American entry into the First World War at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor . He then attended a US Navy officers' school in Ann Arbor. Between 1918 and 1922 he was a member of the reserve for this branch of service. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in Detroit in 1921 in his new profession. Politically, Weideman was a member of the Democratic Party , whose regional congresses in Michigan he attended between 1932 and 1944 as a delegate. In 1940 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a third term.

In the 1932 congressional elections , Weideman was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly created 14th  constituency of Michigan , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he was not nominated for re-election by his party in 1934, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1935 . It was there that the first of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed during this time . With the 21st amendment to the constitution , the 18th amendment from 1919, which had prohibited the trade in alcoholic beverages, was repealed.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Carl Weideman initially worked as a lawyer in Detroit again. Between 1937 and 1950 he served as a Court Commissioner in Wayne County ; between 1950 and 1968 he was a judge in the third judicial district of his state. After that, he retired. Carl Weideman died on March 5, 1972, his 74th birthday, in Grosse Pointe Park and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.

Web links

  • Carl M. Weideman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Weideman, Carl M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weideman, Carl May (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1972
Place of death Grosse Pointe Park , Michigan