Born in Helena, Montana, Weigel was raised in San Francisco, California and attended Lowell High School.
He was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant during World War II, from 1943 to 1945.
[4] In 1949, Weigel represented a group of professors at the University of California dismissed for refusing to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
[5] Weigel was nominated by President John F. Kennedy on July 6, 1962, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California vacated by Judge Louis Earl Goodman.
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