John Wingate Weeks
| John W. Weeks | |
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| 48th United States Secretary of War | |
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In office March 5, 1921 – October 13, 1925 |
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| President |
Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge |
| Preceded by | Newton D. Baker |
| Succeeded by | Dwight F. Davis |
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United States Senator from Massachusetts |
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In office March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919 |
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| Preceded by | Winthrop M. Crane |
| Succeeded by | David I. Walsh |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts |
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In office March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1913 |
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| Preceded by |
Samuel L. Powers (12th) William S. Greene (13th) |
| Succeeded by |
James Michael Curley (12th) John Joseph Mitchell (13th) |
| Constituency |
12th district (1905–13) 13th district (1913) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
John Wingate Weeks April 11, 1860 299 Elm Street, Lancaster, New Hampshire |
| Died | July 12, 1926 (aged 66) Lancaster, New Hampshire |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Aroline Sinclair |
| Alma mater | United States Naval Academy |
| Occupation | banker |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1881-1883, 1898 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
John Wingate Weeks (April 11, 1860 – July 12, 1926) was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as the Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts from 1902 to 1903, a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925.
John Wingate Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1881, and served two years in the United States Navy. He married Martha Aroline Sinclair on 7 October 1885.
Weeks made a fortune in banking during the 1890s, after co-founding the Boston financial firm Hornblower & Weeks in 1888. With his financial well-being assured, Weeks became active in politics, first at a local level in his then-home of Newton, Massachusetts, serving as alderman in 1899–1902 and as mayor in 1903–04. He then moved on to the national scene in 1905, when he was elected to serve the 12th Congressional District of Massachusetts in United States Congress.
As a member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, Weeks made various contributions to important banking and conservation legislation. His most notable accomplishment as Congressman was the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911, his name-sake bill that enabled the creation of national forests in the eastern United States.
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