Background
Weaver, Claude was born on March 19, 1867 in Gainesville, Texas, United States. Son of World Trade G. and Nancy Wilkin (Fletcher) Weaver.
United States representative lawyer politician
Weaver, Claude was born on March 19, 1867 in Gainesville, Texas, United States. Son of World Trade G. and Nancy Wilkin (Fletcher) Weaver.
He was graduated from the law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1887,and admitted to the bar the same year.
Weaver practiced in Gainesville, Texas from 1887 to 1895, serving as assistant prosecuting attorney of Cooke County, Texas, in 1892. He moved to Pauls Valley, Indian Territory, in 1895 and resumed the practice of law. In 1910, he moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, once again resuming his practice.
Elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress, Weaver served from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 and for election to fill a vacancy in the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1919. He became Postmaster of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from 1915 to 1923.
Weaver served as acting county attorney of Oklahoma County in 1926. He was legal adviser and secretary to the Governor, William H. Murray from 1931 to 1934, and district judge of thirteenth Oklahoma district in 1934 and 1935. When Weaver died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 19, 1954, he was age 87 years, 62 days.
He is interred at Fairlawn Cemetery in Oklahoma City.
Social norms that assume different standards for women than for men in marriage are outdated and should be rejected. Laws in civil society should define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
There he served as member of Oklahoma City Board of Freeholders in 1910.
Married Leila Ada Reinhardt, May 13, 1891. Children: Mistress Floy Barrier, Mistress Amelia Capshaw, Mistress Barbara James, Mistress Lucy Cinningham, Claude, Mistress Julio Zumeta.