Edgar Weeks

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

Career

Edgar Weeks was a cousin of John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926), who was 1921-1925 U.S. Secretary of War and represented the state of Massachusetts in both chambers of Congress. He attended the common schools and then served an apprenticeship in the printing trade. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in the January 1861 admission to the bar he began to work in his new profession. During the Civil War he served between 1861 and December 1863 in the Army of the Union. He rose to become captain.

After his military service Weeks was in his hometown of Mount Clemens out one of the Republican Party newspaper close. He also worked as a lawyer again. From 1867 to 1870 Edgar Weeks was a prosecutor; 1870 to 1876 he served as restructuring judge in Macomb County. In 1884, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet. In the elections of 1898 the Republicans Weeks was then in the seventh constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Horace G. Snover on March 4, 1899. After a re-election in 1900 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 two legislative sessions. Since 1901 he was chairman of the Committee on Elections No.. 3

Prior to the elections of 1902, Weeks was not nominated by his party for another term of office. After retiring from Congress, he again worked as a lawyer. He died on 17 December 1904 in his hometown of Mount Clemens.

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