US Congressman, Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Michigan. He was born one of four children as Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock to Lewis Weadock (1819-1863), and his wife Mary Cuchulin, later Cullen Weadock (1816-1876), in Ballygarrett, County Wexford, Ireland, on January 1, 1850. He immigrated with his parents to the United States while he was still an infant and they settled on a farm in St. Mary's, Ohio. He was educated locally and in the common public schools and at the prestigious Union School in St. Mary's, Ohio, before teaching school in Auglaize County, Ohio, Shelby County, Ohio, and Miami County, Ohio, for a period of five years. He then attended, studied law, and graduated from the law department at the prestigious University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in March of 1873. He was then admitted to the bar, and commenced his practice of law in Bay City, Michigan, also in 1873. He served in the Michigan State Militia from 1874 to 1877, and then was appointed to serve a term as the Prosecuting Attorney of Bay County, Michigan, from 1877 to 1878. He then entered politics and served as Chairman of the Democratic State Conventions in 1883 and 1894. He also served as the Mayor of Bay City, Michigan, from 1883 to 1885, and as a Member of the Board of Education of Bay City, Michigan, in 1884. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Frank Willis Wheeler (1853-1921), on March 4, 1891. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Michigan's 10th District (Fifty-Second Congress and Fifty-Third Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1895. While serving in the United States Congress, he also served as the Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining representing the Fifty-Third Congress. He declined to be a Candidate for re-election in 1894. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Rousseau Owen Crump (1843-1901), on March 4, 1895. He was also a Delegate as an At-Large to the Democratic National Convention in 1896, and was a Class 2 Democratic Nominee Candidate for United States Senator from Michigan in 1930. He was preceded by Mortimer Elwyn Cooley (1855-1944), an American mechanical and consulting engineer, and succeeded by Prentiss Marsh Brown (1889-1973), a Democratic United State Representative and Senator from the State of Michigan, for the same party political office nomination. He then resumed his practice of law in Bay City, Michigan, before relocating to Detroit, Michigan, where he also continued with his practice of law for a time. He then was an unsuccessful Democratic Candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan in 1904. He lastly served as a Professor of Law at the University of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, in 1912, was a Candidate Presidential Elector for the State of Michigan, and was appointed an Associate Justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court in 1933. He then again resumed his practice of law until his death. During his lifetime he was also a Member of several prominent organizations and clubs including the American Bar Association, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He passed away following a long illness that resulted from complications of a stroke and bronchopneumonia in Detroit, Michigan, on November 18, 1938, at the age of 88. Following his death, his funeral service and a solemn requiem mass were held at the Our Lady Of The Rosary Church in Detroit, Michigan, with the Right Reverend Monsignor John S. Mies (1872-1962), Pastor of the church officiating. In attendance were numerous county officials and city officials, as well as prominent lawyers, friends, and family. Following the funeral service, he was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Bay City, Michigan. He was married twice, first to Mary E. Tarsney Weadock (1852-1889), in 1874, and the couple had five children together including, Alice Mary Bernadette Weadock (1878-1881), Agnes Lucille Weadock (1879-1880), Lewis Joseph Weadock (1881-1881), James M.A. Weadock (1883-1883), and Frances Clare Weadock (1885-1978). His wife Mary passed away in Bay City, Michigan, on March 11, 1889, at the age of 37, and she is buried in Saint Patrick Cemetery in Bay City, Michigan. He married secondly to Nancy Elizabeth "Nannie" Curtis Weadock (1855-1927), in 1893, but they had no children together. His wife Nancy passed away in Bay City, Michigan, in 1927, at the age of 72, and she is buried in Saint Patrick Cemetery in Bay City, Michigan. His brother, George William Weadock, (1853-1937), was a Mayor of Saginaw. Michigan, and the father and grandfather of state senators, and both the United States Representative Timothy Edward Tarsney (1849-1909), and the United States Representative John Charles Tarsney (1845-1920), were his brother-in-law.