Edgar Weeks
American politician (1839–1904)
Edgar Weeks
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Member of the
U.S.
House
of
Representatives
from Michigan 's 7th district |
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In office
March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903 |
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Preceded by | Horace G. Snover |
Succeeded by | Henry McMorran |
Personal details | |
Born |
(
1839-08-03
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August 3, 1839
Mount Clemens, Michigan |
Died |
December 17, 1904
(1904-12-17)
(aged
65)
Mount Clemens, Michigan |
Political party | Republican |
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Edgar Weeks (August 3, 1839 – December 17, 1904) was a military officer, judge and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan .
Biography
Weeks was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan , where he attended the public schools and learned the printing trade. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in January 1861.
During the Civil War , he served in Company B, Fifth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was first sergeant of the company. He became first lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry in 1862 and captain in 1863. He was appointed assistant inspector general of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland , in 1863 and was mustered out in December 1863.
After the war, he was proprietor and editor of a Republican newspaper in Mount Clemens and commenced the practice of law in Mount Clemens in 1866. He served as prosecuting attorney 1867-1870 and then as judge of probate of Macomb County , 1870-1876.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to the 49th United States Congress , but in 1898 was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 7th congressional district to the 56th Congress . He was re-elected to the 57th Congress , serving from March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1903. He was chair of the Committee on Elections No. 3 in the 57th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902, losing in the Republican primary election to Henry McMorran , who went on to be elected to fill Weeks's seat in the House.
Edgar Weeks resumed the practice of law and died at the age of sixty-five in Mount Clemens, where he is interred in the Clinton Grove Cemetery .
Edgar Weeks' cousin, John W. Weeks , was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts , and U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge .
References
- United States Congress. "Edgar Weeks (id: W000243)" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved on 2008-02-15
- The Political Graveyard
External links
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Preceded by |
United States Representative for the 7th Congressional District of Michigan
1899 – 1903 |
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Authority control
: People
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