Edgar Weeks

Edgar Weeks

Edgar Weeks (born August 3, 1839 in Mount Clemens , Michigan , †  December 17, 1904 there ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edgar Weeks was a cousin of John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926), who was US Secretary of War between 1921 and 1925 and represented the state of Massachusetts in both houses of Congress . He attended the public schools in his home country and then did an apprenticeship in the printing trade. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in January 1861, he began to work in his new profession. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army between 1861 and December 1863 . He rose to the rank of captain.

After his military service, Weeks published a newspaper affiliated with the Republican Party in his hometown of Mount Clemens . He also worked as a lawyer again. Edgar Weeks was prosecutor from 1867 to 1870; from 1870 to 1876 he served as probate judge in Macomb County . In 1884 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. In the elections of 1898 , the Republican Weeks was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Horace G. Snover on March 4, 1899 . After re-election in 1900, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1903. From 1901 he was chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 3 .

In the run-up to the elections in 1902, Weeks was no longer nominated by his party for another legislative term. After leaving Congress, he returned to work as a lawyer. He died on December 17, 1904 in his hometown of Mount Clemens.

Web links

• Edgar Weeks in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edgar Weeks in the database of Find a Grave (English)