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Bill Weld
Weld in 2016
68th Governor of Massachusetts
In office January 3, 1991 – July 29, 1997
Lieutenant
Paul Cellucci
Preceded by
Michael Dukakis
Succeeded by
Paul Cellucci
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
In office September 15, 1986 – March 29, 1988
President
Ronald Reagan
Preceded by
Stephen S. Trott
Succeeded by
Edward Dennis
United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
In office November 1, 1981 – September 15, 1986
President
Ronald Reagan
Preceded by
Edward F. Harrington
Succeeded by
Frank L. McNamara Jr.
Personal details
Born
William Floyd Weld
(1945-07-31) July 31, 1945 (age 78) Smithtown, New York, U.S.
Political party
Republican (before 2016, 2019–present)
Other political affiliations
Libertarian (2016–2019)
Spouses
Susan Roosevelt
(m. 1975; div. 2002)
Leslie Marshall
(m. 2003)
Children
5
Relatives
Weld family
Education
Harvard University (BA, JD) University College, Oxford
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William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.
A Harvard and Oxford graduate,[citation needed] Weld began his career as legal counsel to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary before becoming the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and later, the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. He worked on a series of high-profile public corruption cases and later resigned in protest of an ethics scandal and associated investigations into Attorney General Edwin Meese.
Weld was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990. In the 1994 election, he was reelected by the largest margin of victory in Massachusetts history. In 1996, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, losing to Democratic incumbent John Kerry. Weld resigned as governor in 1997 to focus on his nomination by President Bill Clinton to serve as United States Ambassador to Mexico; due to opposition by socially conservative Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Jesse Helms, he was denied a hearing before the Foreign Relations committee and withdrew his nomination. After moving to New York in 2000, Weld sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New York in the 2006 election; when the Republican Party instead endorsed John Faso, Weld withdrew from the race.
Weld became involved in presidential politics in later years. In 2016, he left the Republican Party to become the Libertarian Party running mate of former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson. They received nearly 4.5 million votes, the highest number for a Libertarian ticket, and the best for any third-party ticket since 1996 with Ross Perot's Reform Party.
Returning to the Republican Party, Weld announced in April 2019 that he would challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries, launching his campaign. He won his first and only delegate of the primaries in the Iowa caucus in February, making him the first Republican since Pat Buchanan in 1992 to win a delegate while running against an incumbent president. Weld suspended his campaign on March 18, 2020, shortly after Trump's delegate count made him the presumptive Republican nominee, and ultimately placed second in 22 states and second overall with 2.4% of the popular vote, collecting relevant percentages of up to 13% in protest-votes against Trump in several states. He endorsed Democrat Joe Biden seven months later.
to Democratic incumbent John Kerry. Weld resigned as governor in 1997 to focus on his nomination by President Bill Clinton to serve as United States Ambassador...
Susan Roosevelt Weld is an American educator who is a former professor at Harvard specializing in ancient Chinese civilization and law. She also was General...
On February 15, 2019, former Massachusetts Governor BillWeld announced the formation of an exploratory committee to consider running for the Republican...
The Weld family may refer to an ancient English family, and to their possible relations in New England, an extended family of Boston Brahmin. An early...
company pay $3.5 million in "linkage payments". Massachusetts governor BillWeld lent strong support to a "Chapter 15" piece of legislation that included...
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. He stated that Johnson and running mate BillWeld were both two-term governors, who are "fiscally conservative, and their...
predecessors did. He was followed by former governor of Massachusetts BillWeld, who announced his campaign on April 15, 2019, and former Illinois congressman...
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and Maine, the president ran unopposed. Former Massachusetts Governor BillWeld challenged incumbent president Donald Trump in the Republican primary...
Tuesday Weld (born Susan Ker Weld; August 27, 1943) is an American former actress. She began acting as a child and progressed to mature roles in the late...
particularly in the Northeast, into the 21st century; examples include governors BillWeld and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, Phil Scott of Vermont, and Larry Hogan...
Massachusetts Undersecretary of Health and Human Services under Governor BillWeld. In 1992, he was appointed secretary of health and human services of Massachusetts...
Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate from 1977 to 1991. When BillWeld resigned in 1997 after being nominated for United States Ambassador to...
major election subject. During his first term as governor, he had vetoed a bill that would have stopped furloughs for first-degree murderers. During his...
election was held on November 8, 1994. Incumbent Republican Governor BillWeld won reelection as Governor of Massachusetts by the largest margin in state...
Trump received about 97 percent of the vote to clinch 39 delegates, while BillWeld received enough votes to clinch 1 delegate. Precinct caucuses were held...
Forbes Under 30 Summit hosted a debate on October 28 between Mark Sanford, BillWeld, and Joe Walsh. The following is a table of participating candidates in...
Candidate Donald Trump BillWeld (withdrawn) Home state Florida Massachusetts Delegate count 34 0 Popular vote 1,053,616 69,427 Percentage 92.1% 6.1%...
Libertarian nomination. He named former Republican governor of Massachusetts BillWeld as his running mate. Johnson received nearly 4.5 million votes (3.3% of...
Gary Johnson, 29th Governor of New Mexico. Vice-presidential nominee: BillWeld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts Additional Party Endorsements: Independence...
Johnson–Weld ticket. Romney remarked that, "if BillWeld were at the top of the ticket, it would be very easy" for him to do so. On June 22, Johnson and Weld...
governor Gary Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts governor BillWeld, receiving over four million votes and 3.3% of the total vote. During...
campaign Mark Sanford presidential campaign Joe Walsh presidential campaign BillWeld presidential campaign Republicans opposition in the 2024 campaign Other...
presidential nominee BillWeld announced the formation of a 2020 presidential exploratory committee on February 15, 2019. Weld announced his 2020 presidential...
Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2020. "BillWeld: Donald Trump is a RINO - Washington Times". The Washington Times. Archived...
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