Claude Weaver

Claude Weaver, between 1910 and 1915

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 constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Claude Weaver attended public schools in his home country and then studied law at the University of Texas at Austin . After his admission to the bar in 1887, he began to work in his home town of Gainesville in his new profession. In 1892 he was also the assistant 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. From 1902 he was resident in Oklahoma City after another move. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1912 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as their candidate in the then newly created eighth District of Oklahoma . There he was able to complete a legislative period between March 4, 1913 and March 3, 1915. In 1914 he was then no longer nominated by his party for another term. His seat fell to the Republican Dick Thompson Morgan after the elections .

In 1919 Weaver applied unsuccessfully in a by-election to return to the US Congress . Between 1915 and 1923 he was a post office owner in Oklahoma City and in 1926 he was acting district attorney in Oklahoma County . Between 1931 and 1934 he served as the legal advisor and private secretary to Governor William H. Murray . He was then a district judge in the 13th Judicial District of Oklahoma from 1934 to 1935. Weaver spent the rest of his life working as a lawyer. He died in Oklahoma City in 1954 and was buried there.

Web links

• Claude Weaver in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Claude Weaver in the database of Find a Grave (English)