Phillip Hart Weaver

Phillip Hart Weaver (born April 9, 1919 in Falls City , Nebraska , † April 16, 1989 there ) was an American politician . Between 1955 and 1963 he represented the first constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Phillip Weaver came from a prominent political family in Nebraska. His grandfather Archibald was a member of Congress for Nebraska from 1883 to 1887, and his father Arthur was the state governor from 1929 to 1931 .

Weaver attended public schools in Falls City and Lincoln . Between 1938 and 1939 he studied at St. Benedicts College in Atchison ( Kansas ) and then until 1940 at the University of Nebraska . During his student days he also worked as a radio announcer. During World War II , Weaver served in the US Army , where he made it to lieutenant colonel. At the end of the war he was stationed in Berlin . Weaver received numerous awards for his military service during the war.

Business and political advancement

After the war, Weaver returned to Falls City, where he worked in the insurance and finance industries. Since 1946 he was director of the company Falls City Wholesale & Supply Inc. Between 1950 and 1951 he worked as a civilian employee in the headquarters of the US Fifth Army in Chicago . He then ran a dealership in Falls City.

Weaver was a member of the Republican Party . In 1954 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded Carl Curtis, who had moved to the Senate , on January 3, 1955 . After he was confirmed in office in the following years, Weaver was able to serve four terms in Congress until January 3, 1963. In the 1962 elections he lost his party's primary election.

Another résumé

Between 1963 and 1965, Phillip Weaver was special advisor to the Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. In 1966, he was assistant director of an agency that dealt with rural development. From 1969 to 1973 he was a department head in the US Department of Agriculture. He then retired from politics and returned to his private business in Falls City. He died there in April 1989.

Web links

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

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