Weldon B. Heyburn

Infobox Senator
name = Weldon B. Heyburn


jr/sr =United States Senator
state = Idaho
term_start = March 4, 1903
term_end = October 17, 1912
preceded = Henry Heitfeld
succeeded = Kirtland I. Perky
date of birth=May 23, 1852
place of birth=Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
dead = dead
date of death=death date and age|1912|10|17|1852|5|23
place of death=Washington, D.C.
residence=Wallace
spouse=
profession=Attorney
religion=
party=Republican|

Weldon Brinton Heyburn was an American politician. A Republican, he served as a United States Senator from Idaho. The town of Heyburn, Idaho, is named after him.

Early life

Heyburn was born near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on May 23, 1852. He attended the public schools there, and later Maplewood Institute, Concordville, Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.

Legal career

He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1876, when he commenced practice in Media, Pennsylvania. Later he moved to Shoshone County, Idaho in 1883 and continued the practice of law in Wallace. Heyburn was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Idaho in 1889.

Political career

Heyburn was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress, losing to Silver Republican Edgar Wilson. In 1902 Heyburn was elected by the Idaho Legislature to the United States Senate, defeating William E. Borah. Heyburn was reelected in 1908. He served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C. on October 17, 1912. In the Senate he served as chairman on the Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-second Congresses). Heyburn was interred in Lafayette Cemetery, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

Mount Heyburn

Mount Heyburn, a jagged peak in the .

Notes

External links

* [http://www.idahosummits.com/misc/heyburn.jpgIdaho Summits.com] - photo of Mount Heyburn

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