Weldon Heyburn, served from 1903 to 1912

Weldon Heyburn was born near Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania on May 23, 1852. He attended the public schools, then the Maplewood Institute in Concordville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. There Heyburn studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Media, Pennsylvania.

Heyburn then moved to Shoshone County, Idaho, in 1883 and continued the practice of law in Wallace. He was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Idaho in 1889.

He was also an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress. He was a National Committeeman for Idaho from 1904 through 1908. He was elected in 1903 as a Republican to the United States Senate. Heyburn was then reelected in 1908 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 17, 1912.

He was chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-second Congresses).

He is buried in Lafayette Cemetery, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

Bibliography

Cook, R.G. "Pioneer Portraits: Weldon B. Heyburn." Idaho Yesterdays 10 (Spring 1966): 22-26; Simpson, John A. , "Weldon Heyburn and the Image of the Bloody Shirt." Idaho Yesterdays 24 (Winter 1981): 20-28

Photos provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.  Biographical information compiled by Congressional Research Service.