Perry Weed, ’61, 1935-2025
Perry Lewis Weed
Perry Lewis Weed of Annapolis, Maryland – beloved husband and father – died on June 20, 2025. He had suffered a massive stroke one week earlier. He was born July 29, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the only child of Miriam Jean Lewis Altemus and Lemuel Byram Altemus. He was legally adopted by his stepfather, J. Arthur Weed on March 17, 1954. He held a B.A. in economics from Hamilton College and a J.D. degree, concentrating on law in economics, from the University of Chicago Law School. He held a post-doctoral fellowship in political science at Northwestern University. He and Dorothy Sue Fisher of Louisville, KY were married on December 28, 1970. He has one child by a previous marriage, Heather Weed Niehoff. His life and career were devoted to law, politics, economics and writing. While his primary career for more than 20 years was that of a lawyer, specializing in litigation, he pursued varied other interests. His book, The White Ethnic Movement and Ethnic Politics, published in 1973(Praeger), still appears on university reading lists.
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