Editing Lowell Weicker (section)

==Early life==
Weicker was born in Paris, the son of American parents Mary Hastings (née Bickford) and Lowell Palmer Weicker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr63.asp |access-date=December 23, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114071447/http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/services/articles_gbr63.asp |archive-date=January 14, 2009 |title=NEHGS – Articles }}</ref> His grandfather Theodore Weicker was a German immigrant who co-founded the [[E. R. Squibb]] corporation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/27/nyregion/weicker-honeymoon-over-as-governor-s-race-heats-up.html|work=The New York Times|title=Weicker Honeymoon Over as Governor's Race Heats Up|first=Nick|last=Ravo|date=August 27, 1990|access-date=May 11, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/v25-1/v25-1%20p1-9.pdf | title=Merck in America: the first 70 years from fine chemicals to pharmaceutical giant | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921074336/http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/v25-1/v25-1%20p1-9.pdf | archive-date=2018-09-21}}</ref> Weicker graduated from the [[Lawrenceville School]] (class of 1949), [[Yale University]] (1953), and the [[University of Virginia School of Law]] (1958).<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=w000253 Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed December 16, 2007.</ref>  He began his political career after serving in the [[United States Army]] between 1953 and 1955, reaching the rank of [[first lieutenant]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/32244545/?terms=%22weicker%22%2Band%2B%22lieutenant%22%2Band%2B%221953%22%2Band%2B%22army%22|title=Weicker Formally Enters Congress Race in Fourth|date=December 1, 1967|work=The Bridgeport Telegram|access-date=September 20, 2018|url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>