John B. Weber
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John Baptiste Weber (September 21, 1842 - December 18, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Weber attended public and private schools and the Central School of Buffalo. Enlisted in the Civil War as a private in the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, August 7, 1861, and was rapidly promoted, attaining the rank of colonel of the Eighty-ninth United States Colored Infantry. He engaged in the wholesale grocery business. He served as assistant postmaster of Buffalo 1871-1873. Sheriff of Erie County 1874-1876.
Weber was elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888. Grade-crossing commissioner of the city of Buffalo 1888-1908. He served as commissioner of immigration at the port of New York 1890-1893. He served as commissioner general of the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. He died in Lackawanna, New York, on December 18, 1926. He was interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York.
