Thomas AE Weadock

Thomas AE 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 US House of Representatives .

Career

While he was still a child, Thomas Weadock and his parents came to the United States, where the family settled on a farm near St. Marys , Ohio . He attended the public schools in his new homeland and then taught himself for five years. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission to the bar in 1873, he began to work in his new profession in Bay City (Michigan). Between 1874 and 1877, Weadock was also a member of the Michigan State Militia. He served as the Bay County attorney in 1877 and 1878 .

Politically, Weadock became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1883 and 1894, he chaired the Michigan regional Democratic Party conference. Weadock was Mayor of Bay City from 1883 to 1885. In this city he was also a member of the education committee in 1884. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Frank W. Wheeler on March 4, 1891 . After a re-election in 1892, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1895 . From 1893 he was chairman of the mining committee. In 1894 Weadock declined to run again for Congress.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Weadock returned to working as a lawyer in Bay City. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where William Jennings Bryan was first nominated as a presidential candidate. He later moved his residence and law firm to Detroit. In 1904, he unsuccessfully applied for a judge's position on the Michigan Supreme Court . In 1912 he became a law professor at the University of Detroit . In 1933, despite his now advanced age of 83, he was appointed to the Supreme Court Justice of his state. Thomas Weadock died in Detroit on November 18, 1938 and was buried in Bay City.

Web links

• Thomas AE Weadock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas AE Weadock in the database of Find a Grave (English)