John M. Wever

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John M. Wever
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st district
In office March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1895
Preceded by	John H. Moffitt
Succeeded by	Simon J. Schermerhorn

Born	February 24, 1847 Ganges Township, Michigan
Died	September 27, 1914 Plattsburgh, New York
Political party	Republican

John Madison Wever (February 24, 1847 - September 27, 1914) was a Representative from New York.

Born in Ganges, Allegan County, Michigan, attended the common schools and Albion College; during the Civil War entered the Union Army at the age of sixteen and served in the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Ohio; at the close of the war settled in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, N.Y., and engaged in banking; elected county treasurer of Clinton County in 1884 and reelected in 1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891 - March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; cashier and later president of the Merchants’ National Bank of Plattsburgh, N.Y.; died in Plattsburgh, N.Y. and is buried in Riverside Cemetery.

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Preceded by John H. Moffitt	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st congressional district 1891–1895	Succeeded by Simon J. Schermerhorn