John Madison Wever (February 24, 1847 – September 27, 1914) was a U.S. representative from New York.
Biography Wever was born in Ganges Township, Michigan.Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, 1904, page 996 He attended the common schools and Albion College.Joseph & Sefton (New York), publishers, Who's Who in Finance, Banking, and Insurance, Volume 1, 1911, page 718 During the Civil War he entered the Union Army at the age of sixteen and served in the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Ohio. At the close of the war, he settled in Plattsburgh, New York, and engaged in banking. He was elected the county treasurer of Clinton County in 1884 and reelected in 1887.Progressive Publishing Company, Progressive Americans of the Twentieth Century, 1910, pages 396-397
Wever was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, serving from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1895. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Harrison De Puy, editors, American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3, 1892, page 1624
He was cashier and later president of the Merchants’ National Bank of Plattsburgh.L. P. Waite & Co. (Newburgh, N.Y.), publisher, Plattsburgh City Directory, 1913, page 26 He died in Plattsburgh and is buried there in Riverside Cemetery.New York State, Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Annual Meeting Proceedings, 1915, page 150Northern New York Tombstone Transcription Project, Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, retrieved November 29, 2013
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