James Weaver was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Weaver was born on October 17, 1800, in Kent, England. He moved to Oneida County, New York, in 1830 before eventually settling in Lisbon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. In 1820, Weaver had married Elizabeth Fielder. Among their children were

Thomas Weaver Thomas Weaver (1773–2 July 1855) was an English mining engineer and geologist. Life He studied geology and mineralogy from 1790 to 1794 under Abraham Werner at Freiberg. Soon after his return to England he was entrusted by government with the i ...

, a member of the Assembly, and Richard Weaver, a member of the Assembly and of the Wisconsin State Senate. The elder Weaver died on October 8, 1886.

Assembly career

Weaver was a member of the Assembly in 1856, succeeding

Joseph Bond Joseph Bond (October 10, 1800January 26, 1884) was a pioneer settler of what became Waukesha County in the Wisconsin Territory, and an active Democratic politician, serving in the territorial legislature and later in the Wisconsin State Assemb ...

. Like Bond, Weaver was a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weaver, James People from Kent English emigrants to the United States 19th-century English politicians 18th-century English people People from Oneida County, New York People from Lisbon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly 1800 births 1886 deaths 19th-century American legislators 19th-century Wisconsin politicians