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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | J. Michael "Mike" Weaver |
| Address | 131 Mayer Lane
Elizabethtown, Kentucky 42701, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
October 31, 1938 |
| Died |
Still Living
(86 years) |
| Contributor | Wishful Thinking |
| Last Modifed | Paul
Mar 31, 2013 03:22am |
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Caucasian - Army - Navy - Catholic -
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| Info | Biography
From Farm to Public Service
Mike Weaver was born and raised on a farm in southern Daviess County, Kentucky. He is the oldest of four boys, and has two older, and two younger sisters. Mike's formative years revolved around Family, Faith, and Farm Work.
Catholic Mass at Saint Anthony's on Sunday morning at 6:00 a.m. was the norm; on rare occasions the family went to the late Mass at 8:00 a.m. Mike attended Saint Anthony's, a three-room schoolhouse, from grades 1 through 8, where each school day started off with Catholic Mass. He attended high school in Owensboro, twenty miles from the farm.
At the age of 17, Mike joined the U.S. Navy, where he served on a Destroyer Escort for three and a half years, as an electronics technician.
After the Navy, Mike attended Brescia College in Owensboro, where he met, courted, and married Lois, his wife of 43 years. In the summer of the second year, after returning to his home town, Mike enlisted in the U.S. Army. When the Weaver's first daughter was one month old, Private Weaver was sent to Korea for an unaccompanied tour with an Armor Battalion in the First Cavalry Division.
After four years in the Army, while at Fort Riley, Kansas, Staff Sergeant Weaver applied for and was accepted to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. The Weaver's second daughter was born shortly after Mike was commissioned; six months later Second Lieutenant Weaver was assigned as a Cavalry Platoon Leader with the First Cavalry Division in Vietnam. When the Weaver's third daughter was three days old, Captain Weaver was assigned as a Cavalry Troop Commander with the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam.
During their 30 year military journey together, Mike rose in rank from a Private to a Staff Sergeant and from a Second Lieutenant to a Colonel. Along the way, Mike received a military scholarship for under-graduate school and another for graduate school. Lois went back to school at the same time and earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees. As Mike moved from place to place over the last 15 years, Lois was based at their new family home in Radcliff, and taught at North Hardin High School. This part of their journey impressed on the family the importance of education. By the end their military career, Mike and Lois had four daughters, and had built a life focused around Family, Faith, and Freedom.
In 1996, four and a half years after retiring from the Army, Mike was elected to fill a vacant seat as State Representative for the 26th District. For eight years, Mike has sponsored, co-sponsored, and voted for legislation that had to meet a simple test: "is it good for family, faith, and freedom, and will it be good for our community?"
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