Carl Weiss
| Carl Weiss | |
|---|---|
Dr. Carl Weiss
|
|
| Born |
Carl Austin Weiss December 6, 1906 Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Died | September 8, 1935 (aged 28) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Resting place | Exhumed from Roselawn Cemetery in Baton Rouge; remains never returned |
| Alma mater |
Catholic High School |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse(s) | Yvonne Louise Pavy Weiss (married 1933-1935, his death) |
| Children | Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. |
| Parent(s) | Carl Adam and Viola Maine Weiss |
| Relatives |
Benjamin Pavy (father-in-law) |
Catholic High School
Interned at Bellevue Hospital in New York City
Benjamin Pavy (father-in-law)
Carl Austin Weiss, Sr. (December 6, 1906 – September 8, 1935), was an American physician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who assassinated U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., at the Louisiana State Capitol on September 8, 1935.
Weiss was born in Baton Rouge to Carl Adam Weiss, M.D., and the former Viola Maine. Weiss's father was a prominent eye specialist who had once treated Senator Long. Weiss was educated in local schools and graduated as the valedictorian of St. Vincent's Academy. He then obtained his bachelor's degree in 1925 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He did postgraduate work in Vienna, Austria, and was thereafter awarded internships in Vienna and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. In 1932, he returned to Baton Rouge to enter private practice with his father. He was president of the Louisiana Medical Society in 1933 and a member of the Kiwanis International (Conrad 1988, 2:831).
In 1933, Weiss married Yvonne Louise Pavy of Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish. The couple had one son, Carl Austin Weiss, Jr., who was born in 1934, shortly before the elder Weiss' death. Pavy was the daughter of Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy (1874–1943) and Ida Veazie (died 1941). The Pavy family was part of an anti-Long political faction. Judge Pavy's brother Felix Octave Pavy (1879-1962), a physician in Leonville and Opelousas, had run for lieutenant governor in 1928 on an intraparty ticket, and had been defeated by Paul N. Cyr, a Jeanerette dentist who was endorsed by Long.
...
Wikipedia