1. Charles Sinclair Weeks, better known as Sinclair Weeks, was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts in 1944 and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1953 until 1958, during President Dwight D Eisenhower's administration.
Sinclair Weeks served as mayor of Newton, Massachusetts from 1930 to 1935.
Sinclair Weeks was a United States senator from Massachusetts from February 8,1944, when he was appointed by Governor Leverett Saltonstall following the resignation of Henry C Lodge Jr.
Sinclair Weeks was the treasurer of the party from 1940 to 1944.
Sinclair Weeks was the president of the American Enterprise Association from 1946 to 1950.
Sinclair Weeks married the former Beatrice Lee Dowse of Newton MA on December 4,1915.
Sinclair Weeks was the daughter of William Bradford Homer Dowse, Esq.
Sinclair Weeks's wife died July 10,1945, in Lancaster NH.
Sinclair Weeks married Jane Tompkins Rankin of Nashville TN on January 3,1948.
Sinclair Weeks had no children by his second or third wives.
In 1941, he and his sister Katherine Sinclair Weeks Davidge had given their father's summer estate on Mt.
Sinclair Weeks died on February 7,1972, at age 78, in Concord, Massachusetts.
Sinclair Weeks is buried in Summer Street Cemetery in Lancaster, New Hampshire.