Roger C. Weightman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger C. Weightman

American politician

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1787

Place of Birth: Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1876

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Roger Chew Weightman (1787; February 2, 1876) was an American politician, civic leader, and printer.
He was the eighth mayor of Washington, D.C.
from 1824 to 1827. Weightman was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1787, moving into the new capital in 1800 and taking an apprenticeship with a local printer.
Weightman bought the printing business in 1807, making him a congressional printer.
He maintained a number of shops on Pennsylvania Avenue, about ten blocks from the White House, from about 1813 onward.
In August 1814, Weightman (by now a First Lieutenant in D.C.'s Light Horse Cavalry) was apprehended by the British troops descending on the White House during the Siege of Washington, a battle in the War of 1812, and made to march with them to the Executive Mansion.
Admiral George Cockburn taunted the upstanding Washingtonian, forcing him to choose a souvenir (albeit one of no monetary value) to remember the day the American capital was defeated.



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat