Terri Lynn Weaver is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 19, 1957 in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. Weaver has been elected to represent the district 40 in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2008 until present, filling the seat that was vacant of Rep. Frank Buck (D) She is a member of the 106th General Assembly as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, the House Children & Family Affairs Committee and the House Education Committee, the House K-12 Subcommittee, and the House Domestic Relations Subcommittee.
On September 13, 2016, Weaver was one of just two House Representatives who voted “opposed” to the expulsion of fellow troubled lawmaker Jeremy Durham over allegations of sexual harassment, campaign finance violations, and tax evasion. Sixteen House members abstained – largely over was they felt was a lack of due process in the matter. Courtroom “due process” was not necessary, the House legislative’s due process was followed.
Weaver supported a Tennessee law that allows prosecutors to charge women with criminal assault if they use narcotics during pregnancy and the fetus or newborn is found “addicted to or harmed by the drug”. The bill, if it became law would be dangerous to the fetus by removing medical treatment while in the womb and the doctors in the Salon article (cited above) also stated that, in spite of the supporters’ state, babies are not born “addicted”. The bill passed and Governor Haslam signed it into law. In 2016, the Legislature refused to renew it.
Weaver ran a political campaign to challenge the incumbent Rep. Frank Buck (D) in the year 2006. Although Rep. Buck was able to keep his seat in the House He later announced that the decision not to run for reelection. Weaver could run an additional campaign in the next election.
It was when she was serving at a restaurant known as Barny Ol’fields in Houston, where she met their husband Mike. She invited him to go to her performance at Grapevine, Texas that Friday and Saturday evening. Mike Weaver has since been an inspiration for her work even encouraging her to sing for him on long drives within the vehicle. They were married on June 23 1979.
Weaver was indirectly responsible for the surprise 2009 Tennessee House of Representatives election of TNGA House Speaker Kent Williams, R-Elizabethton (and concurrently, the defeat of Rep. Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol) as Weaver’s first vote within the House of Representatives sided with the Tennessee House Democrats on the recess motion prior to the January 14, 2009 vote for the Speaker of the House. The Tennessee House Republicans tried to block the recess, but lost on a 50–49 vote.
