County Supervisor Weldon R. Sheets, who is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, today called for an end to paper ballots in those counties in the state which still use them.

* March 9 – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed from Wilmington, North Carolina to Weldon, North Carolina.

* April – The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad is completed from Raleigh, North Carolina to near Weldon, North Carolina.

Due to a lack of support in Raleigh, the route is revised to run from Wilmington to the Petersburg Railroad in Weldon.

The county is divided into twelve townships: Brinkleyville, Butterwood, Conoconnara, Enfield, Faucett, Halifax, Hobgood, Littleton, Palmyra, Roanoke Rapids, Roseneath, Scotland Neck, and Weldon.

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Weldon is a member of the following:

Because a member must notify House leadership promptly if they receive subpoenas while the House is in session to be entered into the Congressional Record, Weldon may have violated House rules depending on when he received the subpoenas.

Weldon has used his position as a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee to attract a range of defense companies to southeastern Pennsylvania.

" As noted in a September 21, 2006, article in The Delaware County Daily Times, citing the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ( CREW ) report on Weldon, " The CREW report compiles news reports in which Weldon, a member of the House since 1987, is described as using his powerful congressional position to help his daughters, Kim and Karen, son Andrew, longtime friend Cecelia ' CeCe ' Grimes and close political associate Charles Sexton Jr ."

The lobbying firm has clients from as far away as California whose with business involves one or both of the House committees that Weldon is a member of.

In 2000 Weldon became a member of the Church of England and was confirmed in St Paul's Cathedral, which was perhaps appropriate because she states that she likes to think that she was " converted by St Paul ".

It was there that two brothers, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson ( faculty member ), wrote the words and music to " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " ( known as the " Negro National Anthem "), in 1900.

On August 14, 2005, Mike Kelly, a columnist for The ( Bergen ) Record ( New Jersey ), described a telephone interview, arranged by the staff of Rep. Curt Weldon, with a man who identified himself as a member of the Able Danger team, but asked that his name not be revealed.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

* WPA Blues, a 1937 song by Casey Bill Weldon, also recorded by Huddie " Leadbelly " Ledbetter: " Everybody's working in this town / And it's worrying me night and day / If that means working too / Have to work for the WPA "

O ' Kelly had also fallen out with his ' Fianna ' and two of his associates ( Weldon and Phelan ), spent six months in prison for assaulting him.

Beauregard continued commanding the defenses of Petersburg in the early days of the siege, but with the loss of the Weldon Railroad in the Battle of Globe Tavern ( August 18 – 21 ), he was criticized for not attacking more forcefully and he became dissatisfied with the command arrangements under Lee.

Albert Weldon came to the area looking for gold and silver.

On October 10, 2002, former mayor Terrance D. Weldon, who was also the city manager of Asbury Park, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark to taking $ 64, 000 in bribes from developers.

The geographical importance for the Northern forces of Plymouth's location at the mouth of the Roanoke River was the Union desire to push upriver and capture the vital Wilmington and Weldon Railroad line passing through Weldon, North Carolina, which would completely cut off the major supply line for General Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia from more southerly ports.

Weldon had worked for the U. S. Geological Survey mapping Indian Territory before the war and knew of the rich coal deposits.

The Portsmouth and Weldon Railroad, completed in the 1830s allowed for goods to be transported from the Roanoke River to be directly transported to Weldon, and the Albemarle-Chesapeake Canal, completed in 1859, created a deeper channel for merchants shipping goods from the Eastern Albemarle Sound to Norfolk.

According to some reports she was married three times, each time to an accomplished blues guitarist: Kansas Joe McCoy later of the Harlem Hamfats, possibly Casey Bill Weldon ( though there is little if any evidence for this ), and Ernest " Little Son Joe " Lawlers.

Paul and Beth Garon's 1992 biography on Memphis Minnie, Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, makes no mention of a marriage to Weldon, but only says that she recorded two sides with him, in November 1935, for Bluebird Records.

He was appointed the joint artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, with the West End impresario Duncan Weldon in 1995 for a three-year tenure.

Other writers working for Chambers in that section included: novelist Nigel Dennis, future New York Times Book Review editor Harvey Breit, and poets Howard Moss and Weldon Kees.

Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris ( John Weldon won ).

At the conclusion of the war, the Congress of the United States commissioned de Weldon to construct the statue for the Iwo Jima memorial in the realist tradition, based upon the famous photograph of Joe Rosenthal, of the Associated Press agency, taken on 23 February 1945.