10 Facts About Edgar Weeks

Edgar Weeks was a military officer, judge and politician from the US state of Michigan.

Edgar Weeks studied law and was admitted to the bar in January 1861.

Edgar Weeks became first lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry in 1862 and captain in 1863.

Edgar Weeks 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.

Edgar Weeks 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.

Edgar Weeks was re-elected to the 57th Congress, serving from March 4,1899, to March 3,1903.

Edgar Weeks was chair of the Committee on Elections No 3 in the 57th Congress.

Edgar Weeks 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 US Representative and US Senator from Massachusetts, and US Secretary of War under Presidents Warren G Harding and Calvin Coolidge.