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Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (/ w aɪ k ər /; May 16, 1931 – June 28, 2023) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. Weicker unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980.
Nov 18, 2017 · Theodore Martin Weicker passed away peacefully at his home in San Mateo with his loving wife Judy at his side. He was 89. Born in France, he was the eldest of four...
Theodore Weicker, who had been with the firm in Darmstadt for 10 years, was placed in charge of the New York office. In 1891 the firm decided it was time for a member of the Merck family to begin tending the company’s business in the US, and the company sent George Merck (Fig.1), Heinrich Merck’s grandson, to New York. George, who was only ...
In 1887, E. Merck & Co. sent a brilliant chemist, Theodore Weicker, who had been with the firm for 10 years, to New York in an attempt to capitalize on America’s newly acquired wealth. In 1891, 24-year-old George Merck, a grandson of Heinrich E. Merck, was sent to New York to oversee the newly established American office.
In 1887 a German-born, long-time Merck employee, Theodore Weicker, went to the United States to represent Merck Group. In 1891, with $200,000 received from E. Merck, Weicker started Merck & Co., with headquarters in lower Manhattan.
Theodore Weicker or Johann Adam Theodor Wilhelm Weicker was a German-American pharmacist. He is noted for opening the American branch of the German company, Merck & Co. He was also a co-founder and president of the Squibb Co. [1] Biography. Weicker was born in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany.
In 1887 E. Merck sent a representative, Theodore Weicker, to the United States to set up a sales office. Weicker (who would go on to own drug powerhouse Bristol-Myers Squibb) was joined by George Merck, the 24-year-old grandson of Heinrich Emmanuel Merck in 1891.
