Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (January 1, 1850 – November 18, 1938) was a judge and politician from the

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. Weadock was born in

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on the

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(then a part of the U.K.). He immigrated to the

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in infancy with his parents, Lewis Weadock and Mary (Cullen) Weadock, who settled on a farm near

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. He was educated in the

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s and the Union School at St. Marys and taught school in the counties of Auglaize, Shelby, and

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for five years. His brother, George W. Weadock, was a mayor of Saginaw and the father and grandfather of state senators.

Education and career

Weadock graduated from the law department of the

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in March 1873 and was admitted to the bar the same year commencing practice in Bay City. The following year, he married Mary E. Tarsney a sister of two U.S. Representatives:

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of Michigan and

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. Weadock served in the State militia 1874-1877; was prosecuting attorney of Bay County in 1877 and 1878; chairman of the Democratic State conventions in 1883 and 1894; mayor of Bay City 1883-1885; and member of the board of education of Bay City in 1884. His first wife, Mary, died in 1889. Later, in 1893, he married Nannie E. Curtiss, who died in 1927. In 1890, Weadock was elected as a

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from

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to the

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and was re-elected in 1892 to the

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, serving from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1895. He was chairman of the

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during the 53rd Congress. He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1894, but was a delegate at large to the

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. After leaving Congress, Weadock resumed the practice of law in Bay City, and later moved to

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continuing to practice. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for judge of the

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in 1904. Eight years later, he was appointed a professor of law at the

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in 1912. Six years later in 1933, he was appointed an associate justice of the state supreme court. Thomas A. E. Weadock was also a member of the

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and the

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. He died in Detroit at the age of eighty-eight and is interred in St. Patrick's Cemetery of Bay City.

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