Karl Weidel

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Field	Value
name	Karl Weidel
state_assembly1	New Jersey
district1	23rd
term_start1	January 12, 1982
term_end1	June 13, 1986
alongside1	Dick Zimmer
predecessor1	Arthur R. Albohn
James J. Barry Jr.
successor1	C. Richard Kamin
state_assembly2	New Jersey
district2	14th
term_start2	January 8, 1974
term_end2	January 12, 1982
alongside2	Walter E. Foran and Barbara McConnell
predecessor2	District created
successor2	Joseph L. Bocchini Jr.
Joseph D. Patero
office3	Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from District 6A
term_start3	January 13, 1970
term_end3	January 8, 1974
predecessor3	John A. Selecky
successor3	District abolished
birth_date
birth_place	Trenton, New Jersey
death_date
death_place	Trenton, New Jersey
party	Republican
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Karl Weidel III (September 27, 1923 – January 31, 1997) was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1970 to 1986.{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weems-weinland.html |title=Index to Politicians: Weemes to Weinland |accessdate=2008-10-11 |last=Kestenbaum |first=Lawrence |work=The Political Graveyard}}

Biography

Weidel was born on September 27, 1923, in Trenton, New Jersey. His father, Karl Weidel, Jr., ran an insurance and real estate brokerage, established in 1915. He attended Trenton Catholic High School, Duke University, and Rutgers Law School. During World War II he joined the United States Navy and became a pilot. After the war, he entered the family business, taking over the insurance division in 1949.{{cite web |url = http://www.weidel.com/getagent/Pages.php?Page=0000524855 |title = Our History |accessdate = 2008-10-11 |publisher = Weidel Realtors |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090211045919/http://www.weidel.com/getagent/Pages.php?Page=0000524855 |archivedate = 2009-02-11

Weidel was a resident of Pennington, Mercer County, New Jersey. He became the first Republican in a generation elected to the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1966. He was first elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1969 to serve in the District 6A, represented the 14th Legislative District from 1974 to 1982, and the 23rd Legislative District from 1982 until his resignation from office. In the New Jersey General Assembly he worked on no-fault insurance reform and also supported the "right-to-die" movement during the Karen Ann Quinlan case.{{cite news |first=Seamus |last=McGraw |title=Ex-assemblyman will be buried near N.J. capitol |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22387467.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021232835/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22387467.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-21 |work=The Record |publisher=North Jersey Media Group |date=1997-02-03 |accessdate=2008-10-11}}

Weidel resigned from the Assembly in 1986 to take a position as executive director of the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund in the New Jersey Department of Insurance. His vacant seat was filled by C. Richard Kamin. Weidel retired from state government in 1990.

On January 31, 1997, Weidel, at the age of 73 and in worsening health, committed suicide by jumping from the top of a Trenton parking garage.{{cite news |title = Karl Weidel Dies In Fatal Plunge |url = http://wawa.starledger.com/texis/search/+iceohCvekDbnmeqkcFIwwwm/searchresults.html |work = Hunterdon County Democrat |date = 1997-02-06 |accessdate = 2008-10-12 |quote = Karl Weidel III, who represented Hunterdon as an assemblyman in the state Legislature for 14 years, died Friday, Jan. 31, 1997 in Trenton. He was 73. |title = Ailing ex-legislator leaps to his death |url = http://wawa.starledger.com/texis/search/+xceohUv7mBmexhPRSwwwD/searchresults.html |first = John |last = McGourty |work = The Times |page = A1 |date = 1997-02-01 |accessdate = 2008-10-12 |quote = The Mercer County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the 11:30 a.m. death a suicide

References

[[Social Security Death Index]] via [http://www.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com]. "Name: Karl Weidel; [...] Born: 27 Sep 1923; Died: 31 Jan 1997; State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)."
[https://books.google.com/books?id=amIkAQAAIAAJ&q=%22karl+weidel%22+trenton+born ''Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual, 1984''], p. 262. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1986. Accessed November 9, 2017. "Karl Weidel, Rep., Clinton - Assemblyman Weidel was born Sept. 27, 1923, in Trenton. He lives at One Charles Way, Clinton."

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