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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IdahoHEYBURN, Weldon Brinton
(1852—1912)
Senate Years of Service:
1903-1912
Party:
Republican
HEYBURN, Weldon Brinton, a Senator from Idaho; born near Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pa., May 23, 1852; attended the public schools, Maplewood Institute, Concordville, Pa., and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Media, Pa.; moved to Shoshone County, Idaho, in 1883 and continued the practice of law in Wallace; was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Idaho in 1889; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; National Committeeman for Idaho 1904-1908; elected in 1903 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1909 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 17, 1912; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-second Congresses); interment in Lafayette Cemetery, near Chadds Ford, Pa.
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.
Cook, R.G. “Pioneer Portraits: Weldon Brinton Heyburn.” Idaho Yesterdays
10 (Spring 1966): 22-26.
___. “Senator Heyburn’s War against the Forest Service.” Idaho Yesterdays
14 (Winter 1970-1971): 12-15.
Cox, Thomas R. “Weldon Heyburn, Lake Chatcolet, and the Evolving Concept of Public Parks.” Idaho Yesterdays
24 (Summer 1980): 2-15.
Heyburn, Weldon B. Idaho Laws and Decisions, Annotated and Digested
. Boise: Statesman Printing Co., 1900.
Simpson, John A. “Weldon Heyburn and the Image of the Bloody Shirt.” Idaho Yesterdays
24 (Winter 1981): 20-28.
U.S. Congress. Weldon Brinton Heyburn (Late a Senator from Idaho). Memorial Addresses Delivered in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States
. 62d Cong., 3d sess., 1912-1913. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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