William Weld

Gov. Weld's Official Portrait

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) was the Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, resigning to pursue the ambassadorship to Mexico. William Weld File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... William Weld File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... William Welds Official Portrait File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... William Welds Official Portrait File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... // Governor of Massachusetts Part the Second, Chapter II, Section I, Article I of the Massachusetts Constitution reads, There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be styled, The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and whose title shall be — His Excellency. ... A U.S. state is any one of the 50 states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Ambassador (disambiguation). ...

Education

Weld was educated at The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut and Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts [1]. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1966, studied economics at University College, Oxford and graduated Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School in 1970. The Loomis Chaffee School is a college preparatory school located in Windsor, Connecticut. ... Windsor is located just north of Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut. ... Main Street, Concord, MA viewed from Monument Square Concord is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 16,993. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... Today Harvard College is the undergraduate portion of Harvard University. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [okos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ... University College (in full, the College of the Great Hall of the University, commonly known as University College in the University of Oxford, usually known by its derivative, Univ), is the oldest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is amongst the largest... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Early career

Weld began his legal career as a counsel with the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate impeachment inquiry. U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, or (more commonly) the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... The Watergate building. ...

He served for five years as United States Attorney in Massachusetts. In the early 1980s, Weld engaged in a highly publicized investigation into the administration of Kevin H. White, then mayor of Boston. Kevin H. White was Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1968-83. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Under President Ronald Reagan, Weld became Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1986 to 1988. Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. ... The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ...

Political career

He was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990, and again in 1994. While in office, he installed the state's first majority female Cabinet. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Weld stood in Massachusetts for the United States Senate in 1996, losing to John Kerry in one of the most closely-watched Senate races that year. Kerry beat Weld by a comfortable margin. During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, he appeared on TV to discuss what it was like to debate and run against John Kerry. He resigned as Governor in 1997 to lobby for his nomination to be Ambassador to Mexico. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms vowed to block the nomination by refusing to hold hearings to discuss it. At issue was the conservative senator's contempt for Weld's support of medicinal marijuana. Helms believed this stance made Weld "soft on drugs", and therefore unsuitable as ambassador to Mexico, seen as a key ally in the War on Drugs. Weld regarded the rhetoric as a challenge, and took his case to the media before ultimately conceding defeat after five months. Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Office: Junior Senator, Massachusetts Political party: Democratic Term of office: January 1985 – Present Preceded by: Paul Tsongas Succeeded by: Incumbent (2009) Date of birth: December 11, 1943 Place of birth: Aurora, Colorado Marriage: (1) Julia Thorne, divorced (2) Teresa Heinz Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the United States Senate. ... Jesse Helms Jesse Alexander Helms (born October 18, 1921, Monroe, North Carolina) is a former Republican U.S. Senator from North Carolina. ... Medical marijuana refers to the use of marijuana, a form of cannabis as a therapy or prescription drug, most notably as an anti-emetic. ... The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. ...

Later career

He now runs the Manhattan office of Chicago based international law firm McDermott Will & Emery. Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...

Weld has also flirted with the arts. He writes thriller novels for the mass market, and has done a little acting.

On April 24, 2005, it was reported that he was in talks with the New York Republicans to run for Governor of New York in 2006 against Democrat Eliot Spitzer if current GOP Governor George Pataki decides not to run for a fourth term. He is also being urged to run for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat in New York in 2006. Despite having served as Governor of Massachusetts, Weld has lived in New York since 2000 and grew up on Long Island. If he runs and is elected, he will become the second person after Sam Houston to serve as Governor of two different U.S. states. April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... This is a list of the Governors of New York. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Eliot Spitzer Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959 in The Bronx, New York) is the current Attorney General for the New York State and a 2006 Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. ... George E. Pataki George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is the current governor of the U.S. state of New York (since 1995). ... Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947), was First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as the wife of President Bill Clinton. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Governor of Massachusetts Part the Second, Chapter II, Section I, Article I of the Massachusetts Constitution reads, There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be styled, The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and whose title shall be -- His Excellency. ... Image of Long Island taken by NASA. Long Island, New York, is an island off the North American coast, some 118 miles (190 km) long, and from 12 to 20 miles (32 km) wide, extending from New York Harbor into the North Atlantic Ocean. ... Sam Houston Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was a key figure in the history of Texas, and, as of 2005, the only person in U.S. history to have been the governor of two different states. ...

Both of those possibilities would be very difficult, however. Polls current show that in a hypothetical matchup, Hillary would easily defeat him 63-26%. [2] Spitzer would also defeat him, with a 60-16% margin. [3]

Connections

Weld is well-connected. His ex-wife, Susan Roosevelt Weld, formerly a professor at Harvard specialising in ancient Chinese civilization and law, and then General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, is great granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt. George Herbert Walker, Jr., uncle of President George H. W. Bush, in the 1970s sold his brokerage company G.H. Walker & Co. to White, Weld & Co. and became a director of the latter company before its merger with Merrill Lynch in 1978. Weld is now said to be heir to the White, Weld fortune. Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Order: 26th President Vice President: Charles Warren Fairbanks Term of office: September 14, 1901 – March 3, 1909 Preceded by: William McKinley Succeeded by: William Howard Taft Date of birth: October 27, 1858 Place of birth: New York City Date of death: January 6, 1919 Place of death: Oyster Bay, New... Order: 41st President Vice President: J. Danforth Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush (born June... Merrill Lynch & Co. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

Weld is a principal at Leeds Weld & Co., which describes itself as the United States's largest private equity fund focused on investing in the education and training industry. Its board of advisors is chaired by Rudolph W. Giuliani. Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, KBE (born May 28, 1944) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994 through December 31, 2001. ...

Quote

"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

Books

Has written three books for the mass market:

1. Stillwater ISBN 0156027232
2. Mackerel By Moonlight ISBN 0671038745
3. Big Ugly ISBN 0743410378

External links

• USA Today interview July, 2000
• Clinton Impeachment testimony
• NACDL Notes on the Kevin White investigation

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