Background
Wightman was born on October 2, 1938, in North Platte, Nebraska. He grew up between Sumner and Overton, and graduated from Sumner High School in 1956.
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John Wightman, American state legislator. Member of Lexington Chamber of Commerce, Nebraska Bar Foundation, Nebraska Bar Association, Dawson County Bar Association, United Methodist Church, Lexington Community Foundation, Dawson Area Development Board Director, Lexington Council Economic Development, Lexington Planning Comn.
Education
Nebraska State Teachers College (Bachelor of Arts, 1959). University of Nebraska (Bachelor of Laws, 1963). Phi Delta Phi; Order of the Coif.
Member, Board of Editors, Nebraska Law Review, 1962-1963.
Career
He served two terms, from 2007 to 2015, in the Nebraska Legislature, representing a district in the central part of the state. He obtained a Bachelor of Surgery from Kearney State College, now the University of Nebraska at Kearney, in 1959. In 1963, Wightman moved to Lexington to practice law.
Wightman served several terms on the Lexington city council, amounting to some 20 years.
Foreign two of those years, he served as the city"s mayor. In 2006, Wightman ran for the Nebraska legislature from the 36th District, which consisted of parts of Buffalo and Dawson Counties in the south-central part of the state.
In the May 2006 primary election, Wightman received 4227 of the 7147 votes cast, or 59.1% of the total. Pierce obtained 2920 votes, or 40.9%.
In 2010, Wightman was unopposed for re-election to the 36th District seat.
Based on the 2010 United States. census, the boundaries of the district were redrawn in 2011. lieutenant now consisted of the entirety of Dawson and Custer Counties, and the northern half of Buffalo County. Wightman suffered health problems during his tenure in the Legislature, including several knee replacements, one of which was followed by a persistent infection that forced him to miss part of the 2011 legislative session.
In September 2012, he suffered what was described as a "moderate" stroke.
Later, he stated that he had no memory of the two weeks after the stroke, and that it had affected his ability to remember the names of his fellow legislators. Under Nebraska"s term-limits law, Wightman was ineligible to run for a third consecutive term in 2014.
He was succeeded by Gothenburg banker Matt Williams.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Lexington Chamber of Commerce, Nebraska Bar Foundation, Nebraska Bar Association, Dawson County Bar Association, United Methodist Church, Lexington Community Foundation, Dawson Area Development Board Director, Lexington Council Economic Development, Lexington Planning Comn.
Connections
Married Janet L. Wightman. Children: John Junior, Jeffrey, Jill.
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Political Party
Republican party