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Jan 18, 1787 Alexandria, Virginia, United States Died on 02 Feb 1876 (aged 89)
American politician
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About Roger C. Weightman
- 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.
