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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Al Weed |
| Address | PO Box 22949
Lovingston, Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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May 23, 1942
(81 years)
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Modifed | David
May 24, 2021 12:38am |
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Caucasian - Army - Special Forces - Christian - Straight -
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| Info | Albert Charles "Al" Weed, II
About Al Weed
Albert Charles Weed II was born to Solace and Lowrey Weed on May 23, 1942, in the Brooklyn Naval Hospital. His father, a First Sergeant in the Marine Corps, was stationed at Quantico, Virginia from 1942 to 1948. At the end of WWII, his father, at the age of 55, was forced to leave active service. He moved his family to New York City in search of employment, where they lived in a housing project built for returning GI's. Family life was troubled as Al's father was unable to find steady work and drinking became his major comfort. Al's mother worked when she could but, with five children, they were on and off Welfare to keep the family together. Al began to dream of working on a farm, and in December of his 7th grade year he ran away from home. He was aiming for Idaho, where he thought a farm might hire him; instead, the police picked him up in the rural area west of Philadelphia. In April of that year, his father died and the Episcopal Church youth services suggested to his mother that he attend the Church Farm School, located in Pennsylvania not ten miles from where he had been that previous December. Offered a full scholarship, he became, at last, a farmer.
Al thrived at Church Farm School, in part because it was an escape from the NYC public housing projects where his family still lived and where he returned on every break. In 1960, he graduated high school and entered Yale on a Naval ROTC scholarship. He left Yale in 1962 and enlisted in the US Army. By 1964, he was in the US Army's 8th Special Forces Group in Panama, working as a medical sergeant. There he met Emily Chan, a US trained nurse working at a nearby hospital. He left Panama in 1965 for Viet Nam, where he spent a year. Upon his homecoming in 1966, he married Emily and returned to Yale, now supported by the GI Bill and a hard working wife. There, his son Albert III was born. Al received his BA cum laude, with a major in Latin American Studies in 1968.
He went on to attend Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, majoring in Economic Development and Political Modernization. He served as Class President and was awarded a Master of Public Affairs in 1970.
With his degrees completed, Al worked for a year as the first Technical Assistant to the US Director of the World Bank. When the Alternate Director left office, Al functioned as the Temporary Alternate US Director (the formal Alternate's position required a Presidential appointment). He served in this position for a year until the position was filled by the White House.
He was then hired as the Director of the Washington Office for the Arthur Lipper Corporation, an international investment company, and spent time working in Asia and Europe. However, he began to long again for a farm and in 1973, just after the birth of their daughter Julia, the family moved to Nelson County.
Al's mother-in-law, Joyce Ng, has lived with the family for over twenty years. She is a wonderful part of the family and has had much to do with the way the children were raised.
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