Weldon B. Heyburn

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Weldon B. Heyburn

United States Senator from Idaho
In office March 4, 1903 – October 17, 1912
Preceded by	Henry Heitfeld
Succeeded by	Kirtland I. Perky

Born	May 23, 1852 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Died	October 17, 1912 (aged 60) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Republican
Residence	Wallace
Profession	Attorney

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.

1 Early life
2 Legal career
3 Political career
4 Mount Heyburn
5 External links
6 Sources

[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, losing to Silver Republican Edgar Wilson. In 1902 Heyburn was elected by the Idaho Legislature to the United States Senate, defeating William E. Borah. Heyburn 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.

[edit] Mount Heyburn

Mount Heyburn, a jagged peak in the Sawtooth Mountains, is named for the senator. [1] The mountain tops out at 10,299 feet (3139 m) above sea level, and overlooks Redfish Lake in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, just south of Stanley.

[edit] External links

Idaho Summits.com - photo of Mount Heyburn

[edit] Sources

Weldon B. Heyburn at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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