Weldon B. Heyburn
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Political career
Heyburn was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress, but was elected in 1903 as a Republican to the United States Senate and 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.
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| United States Senators from Idaho |  |
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| Class 2: Shoup • Dubois • Borah • Thomas • Gossett • Dworshak • Miller • Dworshak • Jordan • McClure • Craig Class 3: McConnell • Dubois • Heitfeld • Heyburn • Perky • Brady • Nugent • Gooding • Thomas • Pope • Clark • Taylor • Welker • Church • Symms • Kempthorne • Crapo |
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