Career
He was the leader of the Swedish People"s Party from 1967 to 1969. Wedén survived severe tuberculosis and became a businessman in the family company, a metal manufacturing firm. Wedén had no higher education but became a self-learned intellectual, starting with extensive reading during long sejours at tuberculosis hospitals.
He was strongly pro-British and influenced by reading about British parliamentary life.
In parliament Wedén for many years worked with housing and defence policy, but over the years he became part of the small circle of leading liberals around Bertil Ohlin and finally Ohlins successor as chairman and parliamentary leader. However Wedéns health was now broken and after his only election campaign as party leder, which ended with a setback, he resigned as party chairman 1968 and retired from parliament after the election 1970.