51 Facts About William Weld

William Floyd Weld was born on July 31,1945 and is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.

William Weld 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.

William Weld 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.

William Weld suspended his campaign on March 18,2020, shortly after Trump's delegate count made him the presumptive Republican nominee.

William Weld began his legal career as a junior counsel on the US House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry staff during the 1974 impeachment process against Richard Nixon.

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William Weld contributed to the groundbreaking "Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment" report, which detailed the historical basis and standards for impeachment of a president.

William Weld worked on researching whether impoundment of appropriated funds was an impeachable offense.

William Weld's experience serving on the impeachment inquiry staff sparked his interest in criminal law.

William Weld returned afterward to Massachusetts, where he ran unsuccessfully for Massachusetts Attorney General in 1978.

In 1981, Weld was recommended to President Reagan by Rudolph W Giuliani, then Associate US Attorney General, for appointment as the US Attorney for Massachusetts.

William Weld gained national recognition in fighting public corruption: he won 109 convictions out of 111 cases.

William Weld was responsible for supervising all federal prosecutions, including those investigated by the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration, as well as the work of the 93 US Attorneys.

From 1988 to 1990, William Weld was a senior partner at Hale and Dorr.

In 1990, William Weld announced his candidacy for Governor of Massachusetts to replace the out-going Michael Dukakis.

Governor William Weld is generally considered to have been a moderate or liberal Republican Governor.

William Weld reaped the benefits of the 1990s' prosperity, as the state's unemployment rate fell by more than 3 percentage points during his first term, from 9.

William Weld is pro-choice and helped to introduce legislation to make it easier for women to access abortion procedures.

William Weld said he would recognize same-sex marriages that might be performed out of state following a court decision in Hawaii.

William Weld signed into law the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 that created the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and the legal framework for charter schools in Massachusetts.

One of the social services William Weld opposed and eventually ended was a program providing higher education to prison inmates.

William Weld worked to expand Medicaid access by requesting more federal funding and, then, allowing more residents to qualify for the plan to both solve budget problems and increase access to health care in the state.

William Weld carried all but five towns in the whole state, even carrying Boston.

On November 30,1995, William Weld announced that he would challenge incumbent Democratic Senator John Kerry in the 1996 election.

In July 1997, William Weld was nominated to become United States Ambassador to Mexico by President Bill Clinton.

William Weld's nomination stalled after Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Jesse Helms refused to hold a hearing on the nomination, effectively blocking it.

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Meese reportedly had a long-standing grudge against William Weld stemming from William Weld's investigation of Meese during the Iran–Contra affair.

William Weld resigned the governorship on July 29,1997, to devote his full attention to campaigning for the ambassadorship, even though few thought he would be successful; there was speculation that he was really resigning because he had become tired of serving as governor.

Between 2007 and 2011, William Weld was a lobbyist for defense contractor Raytheon, CNX Gas Corporation, Sony Electronics and shoemaker New Balance.

At the private equity firm, William Weld later "reduced his role to a senior advisor while considering a run for New York governor" in 2005.

In 2012, William Weld moved to the Boston law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, becoming a partner there and a principal with the firm's government relations affiliate, ML Strategies LLC.

From January to October 2005, William Weld was chief executive of Decker College in Louisville, Kentucky.

William Weld's term ended as the college was closing under bankruptcy protection following a disagreement with the US Department of Education about accreditation of its construction-related courses and online instruction.

In December 2005, William Weld received the backing of the Republican county chairs of New York State during a county chairs meeting.

William Weld reportedly offered his chief rival for the nomination, former Republican Assembly leader John Faso, the chance to join his ticket as a candidate for lieutenant governor, an offer Faso reportedly declined.

William Weld formally announced his withdrawal from the race the following day and returned to private life.

William Weld publicly endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for the presidency on January 8,2007; he was a co-chairman for Romney's campaign in New York State.

William Weld personally made a donation of $2,100, the maximum allowed per person per election at the time.

William Weld was active in campaigning for Romney in New Hampshire, where both governors have been known to travel together.

William Weld went on to endorse Barack Obama over John McCain in the general election.

In February 2016, William Weld endorsed Ohio Governor John Kasich for the Republican presidential nomination.

Together, Johnson and Weld were the first presidential ticket to consist of two Governors since the 1948 election when Thomas Dewey of New York ran as a Republican with Earl Warren of California and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ran as a States' Rights Democrat with Fielding L Wright of Mississippi.

On January 17,2019, William Weld rejoined the Republican Party, increasing speculation that he would run for president.

On February 14,2019, William Weld announced that he was launching a presidential exploratory committee for the 2020 Republican primary, against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.

William Weld is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

William Weld co-chaired its Independent Task Force on North America, which studied the liberalization of markets and free trade between the US, Canada, and Mexico.

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William Weld serves on the board of directors of Acreage Holdings.

In February 2013, William Weld publicly supported legal recognition for same-sex marriage in an amicus brief submitted to the US Supreme Court.

In January 2019, William Weld changed his party affiliation back to Republican, in preparation for his presidential run as a Republican.

William Weld sits on the bipartisan advisory board of States United Democracy Center.

William Weld married Susan Roosevelt William Weld, a great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, on June 7,1975.

Susan Roosevelt William Weld was a professor at Harvard University specializing in ancient Chinese civilization and law, and she later served as General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.