admin HON. ORSON J. WEIMERT, lawyer and Assemblyman from the 1st Assembly District of Erie County, is a rising young man of distinctive ability and force of character, who has by these qualities already won a prominent place in the legal profession and in public life. As a lawyer he enjoys a large practice and has an enviable reputation for acumen and probity. As a member of the Legislature he has to his credit a fine record of achievement, the more notable in view of the fact that he has been so short a time in office. Mr. Weimert is a loyal son of Buffalo, and takes an active interest in the progress and institutions of the city.
Mr. Weimert was born in Buffalo in 1878, and gained his early education in the public schools. He studied law at Columbia University, New York City, and was graduated from that institution in 1900, in which year he was also admitted to the bar. After spending an additional year at Columbia, pursuing a course of special study, he returned to Buffalo and engaged in the practice of law, in which he has met with marked success. Recently he became associated in partnership with Richard H. Templeton, under the firm style of Weimert & Templeton, with offices at Nos. 909-910 D. S. Morgan Building. Messrs. Weimert & Templeton are among the best-known members of the younger bar of Erie County, and the firm has a desirable clientage and an extensive general practice. As a legal practitioner Mr. Weimert is painstaking and accurate, preparing his cases with care and sparing no honorable effort in behalf of his clients. Of conservative tendencies, his instincts and acquirements are those of a sound lawyer, and he stands high in the esteem of his professional brethren and the confidence of the community.
Politically Mr. Weimert is a strong Republican, and ever since attaining his majority lie has taken an active part in the work of his party. In the fall of 1906 he was nominated for the Assembly after a spirited contest in the convention against strong opponents, and in November of the same year he was elected by a large majority, and reelected in 1907. His course at Albany has been that of an energetic, aggressive legislator, and has been attended by substantial results, conducive to the benefit of Buffalo. Thus far his most notable achievement in the Legislature has been his successful effort to have a naval corps established at the port of Buffalo. This project has been agitated for several years, but it remained for Assemblyman Weimert to give the plan definite shape and to push it through to conclusive results. The methods and the outcome furnish a fine example of purposeful and persistent endeavor in the field of legislation, and the success attained greatly increased the Assemblyman’s prestige with his constituents and the general public. Since taking his seat in the State legislative body, Mr. Weimert has served with credit on several important committees. For some time prior to his election to the Assembly he had filled the post of Republican Committeeman for the Third District of the Twenty-first Ward.
Mr. Weimart is a man who leaves on all who know him the impression of a clean-cut, vigorous personality. He is popular, and is one for whom may be confidently predicted a future of professional success and public usefulness.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I