Robert Weygand
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Bob Weygand | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 2nd district | |
In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2001 | |
Preceded by | Jack Reed |
Succeeded by | James Langevin |
65th Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island | |
In office January 2, 1993 – January 2, 1997 | |
Governor | Bruce Sundlun Lincoln Almond |
Preceded by | Roger N. Begin |
Succeeded by | Bernard Jackvony |
Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from the 84th district | |
In office 1985–1993 | |
Preceded by | Henry J. Connors |
Succeeded by | Henry C. Rose |
Personal details | |
Born | Attleboro, Massachusetts, U.S. | May 10, 1948
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | University of Rhode Island (BFA, BS, MA, MPA) |
Robert A. "Bob" Weygand (born May 10, 1948) is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 until 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party from Rhode Island.
Life and career
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Weygand was born in
A landscape architect for the Rhode Island Department of Natural Resources from 1973 to 1977, a city planner and landscape architect for an architectural firm from 1977 to 1982, he founded and was president of Weygand, Orchich, & Christie, Inc., an architectural and landscape architectural firm from 1982 to 1993. He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1998.
In 1991, Weygand, then a state legislator, was offered a $2,000 bribe by then-
Weygand served as chairman of the East Providence Planning Board from 1978 to 1984, a member of the
In 2001, Weygand was appointed President of the New England Board of Higher Education in Boston. In 2004, he stepped down at NEBHE to take a new position as Vice President for Administration at the University of Rhode Island. In 2013, Weygand stepped down from the administration to take a faculty position as the director of the University of Rhode Island MPA program.
References and external links
- Weygand leaving URI post with $51,707 payment for unused vacation days, providencejournal.com; accessed April 18, 2018.
- United States Congress. "Robert Weygand (id: W000315)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
References
- ^ "AllPolitics/CQ - Freshmen of the 105th Congress". CNN. Retrieved April 28, 2017.