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Notes for Weldon Brinton HEYBURN

HEYBURN, Weldon Brinton, a Senator from Idaho; born near Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pa., May 23, 1852; attended the public schools, Maplewood Institute, Concordville, Pa., and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Media, Pa.; moved to Shoshone County, Idaho, in the winter of 1883 and continued the practice of law in Wallace; was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Idaho in 1889; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888, at Minneapolis in 1892, at Philadelphia in 1900, and at Chicago in 1904; National committeeman for Idaho 1904-1908; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; elected in 1903 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1908 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 17, 1912; interment in Lafayette Cemetery, near Chadds Ford, Pa.
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