Mike Weaver (politician)

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Mike Weaver is a politician and retired military officer from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He has served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since 1996, representing the 26th District. Weaver, a member of the Democratic Party, lost in the 2006 election for Kentucky 2nd Congressional District's seat in the United States House of Representatives to incumbent Ron Lewis.

Weaver served in the U.S. Navy as a young man; he later joined the U.S. Army. He fought in the Vietnam War. He became an Army officer after graduating from Officer Candidate School. He is considered a Fighting Dem.

In the Kentucky House of Representatives, Weaver helped found a conservative caucus of Democrats in the state House called the Commonwealth Democrats. That group challenged the Democratic House leadership in the fall of 2005 because they felt the leaders had allowed the Republican Party to paint them as liberal. Many of them, including Weaver, also supported the tax modernization plan of Republican Governor Ernie Fletcher early on.^[1]

A Roman Catholic, Weaver and his wife Lois have four children.