PERSON: Bill Weld

Governor (Fmr.)

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman and Libertarian politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Weld, a liberal Republican served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1981 to 1986 and as the head of the Department of Justice Criminal Division from 1986 to 1988.

He was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1990 and served as the 68th Governor from 1991 to 1997. He was re-elected by the largest margin in Massachusetts’ history in 1994 and was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in 1996, losing to incumbent Democrat John Kerry. He resigned as Governor in 1997 to focus on his nomination by President Bill Clinton to serve as United States Ambassador to Mexico, but because of opposition by the more conservative Senate Foreign Relations committee Chairman Jesse Helms, he withdrew his nomination. He then returned to the private sector and moved back to his native state of New York, where he ran as both a Libertarian and Republican candidate to be elected Governor of New York in 2006. He was nominated by the Libertarian Party of New York but was defeated for the Republican nomination, and subsequently withdrew from the race. In May 2016, former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson named Weld as his running mate for the 2016 nomination.

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