Date Of Birth & Birthplace: 5/23/1942 (Brooklyn, NY) Race: White Religion: Episcopalian Residence: Nelson County, VA Education: BA in Latin American Studies from Yale University, New Haven, CT; MPA in Public Affairs from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Occupation: Farmer, Wine Farmer Office Type:U.S. House -- Virginia District 5
Quarterly Campaign Finance Information
Cash on Hand: $68,929
Total Receipts: $190,002
Total Disbursements: $121,070
Date of Last Report: 6/30/2004
Biography:
Albert Charles Weed II was in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1942 and went to high school at an Episcopalian-affiliated farm school in Pennsylvania. He entered Yale in 1960 on a Naval ROTC scholarship, but stayed only two years, enlisting in the Army in 1964.
Weed worked as a medical sergeant in the US Army's 8th Special Forces Group in Panama, where he met his future wife, Emily Chan. He then spent a year in Vietnam and returned in 1966 to Yale to finish his degree in Latin American Studies.
He and Emily had a son, Albert III, before he graduated in 1968. Weed went on to attend Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, majoring in economic development and political modernization.
He spent several years working in Washington, D.C., first as technical assistant to the U.S. director of the World Bank, then as the temporary alternate U.S. director. He left this job to work as director of the Washington Office for the Arthur Lipper Corporation, an international investment company, and spent time working in Asia and Europe.
Weed left the field in 1973, however, to start a winery in rural Nelson County, just south of Charlottesville. He has since run twice unsuccessfully for state Senate, and has remained active in local issues, founding a group in 1999 to preserve and protect the rural character of Nelson County.
Past Campaigns:
Al Weed has twice unsuccessfully run for the Democratic nomination for state Senate, and also unsuccessfully sought a seat on the Nelson County Board of Supervisors.
