Weldon B. Heyburn

Weldon Brinton Heyburn (born May 23, 1852 in Chadds Ford , Delaware County , Pennsylvania , † October 17, 1912 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Idaho in the US Senate .

Weldon Heyburn first attended public schools, then the Maplewood Institute in Concordville, and finally the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1876, whereupon he began to practice in Media as a lawyer. In 1883 he moved to Shoshone County in northern Idaho , where he worked in Wallace .

In 1889 Heyburn took part as a delegate at the conference to draft a constitution for the new state of Idaho; the following year it joined the Union. His first attempt to win a political mandate in the federal capital failed in 1898 when he was defeated in the election for the United States House of Representatives by Edgar Wilson from the Silver Republican Party , a breakaway Republican party. For this he won the election to the US Senator in 1902, where he prevailed against William Edgar Borah , also a member of the Republican Party.

Six years later, in 1908, he was re-elected by the Idaho state parliament. Heyburn died in Washington in October 1912 before his second term ended. During his time in the Senate, among other things, he was Chairman of the Committee on Manufactures . The town of Heyburn in Minidoka County and Mount Heyburn , a mountain in the Sawtooth Range of the Rocky Mountains , are named after him .

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SURNAME	Heyburn, Weldon B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heyburn, Weldon Brinton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Chadds Ford , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH	October 17, 1912
Place of death	Washington, DC