Arthur J. Weaver was a Nebraska

Nebraska

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 Republican

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 politician

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 best known for being the 22nd Governor

Governor of Nebraska

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 of Nebraska. Early in his life he was a lawyer and fruit grower. He was married to Maude E. Hart on September 2, 1908.

He was also a founding member of the Beta Tau Chapter of Delta Tau Delta

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 Fraternity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1894.

Political career

Besides being governor from 1929 to 1931, he was elected to the Nebraska house of representatives in 1899. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1919 to 1920, a presidential elector for Nebraska in 1920, delegate to the 1932 Republican National Convention

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 and chair of the Richardson County Republican Party in 1940.