Alvin Wiederspahn

Who is Alvin Wiederspahn?

Alvin Laramie Wiederspahn, usually known as Al Wiederspahn, is a prominent attorney in Cheyenne who served for ten years as a Democrat in the Wyoming House of Representatives and the Wyoming State Senate. He is married to Cynthia Marie Lummis, a Republican politician who was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2008, after serving as State Treasurer, and like her husband, as a member of both houses of the Wyoming legislature, representing the state capital, Cheyenne.

Wiederspahn was born in Cheyenne to J. Arling Wiederspahn and Edvina Wiederspahn. The senior Wiederspahn was originally from Grand Island, Nebraska, but he moved to Cheyenne in 1936. Arling Wiederspahn, who owned and operated the Wiederspahn Chapel of the Chimes funeral home from 1956 to 1987, was a pioneer mortician in Cheyenne. He served as the elected Democratic coroner of Laramie County from 1963 to 1979 and a member of the Laramie County Community College board of trustees from 1970 to 1985. Arling Wiederspahn served by appointment of Democratic Edgar Herschler on the Wyoming Board of Embalming.