William Weld
William F. Weld (born July 3, 1945) was from 1991-1997 Governor of Massachusetts, resigning to pursue the ambassadorship to Mexico.
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2 Early Career 3 Politial Career 4 Later Career 5 Connections 6 Quote 7 Books 8 External Links |
Education
Weld was educated at Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT and Middlesex School,
Concord, MA [1], He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1966, studied economics at
University College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School in 1970.
Early Career
Weld began his legal career as a counsel with the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate impeachment inquiry.
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.
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 1986-1988.
Weld stood in Massachusetts for the United States Senate in 1996, losing to 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. Weld regarded the rhetoric as a challenge, and took his case to the media before ultimately conceding defeat after five months.
Weld has also flirted with the arts. He writes thriller novels for the mass market, and has done a little acting.
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.
Politial 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.Later Career
He now runs the Manhattan office of Chicago based international law firm McDermott Will & Emery. Connections
Weld is well-connected. His ex-wife, Susan Roosevelt Weld, a professor at Harvard Law School specialising in ancient Chinese law, 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.Quote
"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
Books
Has written three books for the mass market:
External Links
| Preceded by: Michael Dukakis | Governor of Massachusetts | Succeeded by: Paul Cellucci |