Jessica M. Weis

Jessica M. Weis

Jessica McCullough Weis (born July 8, 1901 in Chicago , Illinois , †  May 1, 1963 in Rochester , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1963 she represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jessica McCullough, her maiden name, attended Franklin School in Buffalo , Miss Wright's School in Bryn Mawr ( Pennsylvania ) and Madam Rieffel's School in New York City . In her youth she worked for a number of charities, including the Red Cross . Since the mid-1930s she was politically active in the Republican Party . She became a member of the Inter-American Commission of Women and was Vice Republican District Chairman in Monroe County from 1937 to 1952 . She served as President of the National Federation of Republican Women from 1940 to 1941 . From 1944 to 1963 she was a member of the Republican National Committee . Between 1940 and 1956 she participated as a delegate at all Republican National Conventions . In 1953, 1956 and 1960 she was a member of the National Civil Defense Advisory Council .

In the congressional elections of 1958 , Weis was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 38th  constituency of New York , where she succeeded Kenneth Keating on January 3, 1959 . After re-election, she was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1963 . These were shaped by the events of the Cold War and especially by the Cuban Missile Crisis and the events of the civil rights movement . Jessica Weis has served on the Committee on Government Operations , the District of Columbia Administration Committee, and the newly created Science and Space Committee. Due to cancer, she decided not to run again in 1962.

Jessica Weis died on May 1, 1963 in Rochester, where she was also buried. She was married to Charles William Weis since 1921, with whom she had three children.

Web links

• Jessica M. Weis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Kenneth Keating	United States House Representative for New York (38th constituency) January 3, 1959 - January 3, 1963	Charles Goodell