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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 7/3/1921
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 22 (1888) - 23 (1890)
Home County: Montgomery
Thomas Weidman
Montgomery County

THOMAS WEIDMAN was born at Columbia, New Jersey, August 30, 1838, and died at Red Oak, Iowa, July 3, 1921. With his parents’ family he removed to Waverly, Pennsylvania, in 1851 and to Fremont County, Iowa, in 1856. He removed to Montgomery County in 1861. He engaged in farming and became an extensive land owner. In 1887 he was elected senator and served in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third general assemblies. Later he was for a time special agent of the government land office in New Mexico, but resigned and returned to Montgomery County.

Sources:
Senate District 8
Committees
22nd GA (1888)
Legislation Sponsored
22nd GA (1888)