John E. Weeks

John Eliakim Weeks ( born June 14, 1853 in Salisbury, Addison County, Vermont; † September 10, 1949 in Middlebury, Vermont ) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

After attending elementary school and high school Weeks was from 1882 initially employed in the banking industry. From 1884 to 1886 he was assessor at the Court of Addison County; 1902 to 1904 he was again held this position.

In 1888 he was first elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont; In 1896 he moved into the state Senate. Other terms of office in the House of Representatives followed in 1912 and 1915; in the last of the three terms, he was the Speaker of the Parliament chamber.

After he had held from 1923 to 1926, the Office of the Commissioner for the public welfare, he was elected in 1926 to the Governor of Vermont. This he remained until 1931, before he entered for the first election district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1932, he did not stand for re-election, so that his time in Congress ended on March 3, 1933. Then he returned to the banking business.

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