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John Wingate Weeks was born on a farm near Lancaster, N. H. , son of William Dennis and Mary Helen (Fowler) Weeks, and a descendant of Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somersetshire, England, before 1656 and settled in Greenland, originally part of Portsmouth, N. H.
As a boy Weeks attended the local school and by doing the chores on his father's farm laid the foundation for the robust health he enjoyed until in his fifties. At sixteen he taught school for a term and then, in 1877, entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he was graduated four years later.
He continued in the navy until 1883, when a general curtailment of personnel forced his discharge. For several years thereafter he worked at surveying in Florida. Because the climate of Florida did not agree with his wife, Weeks in 1888 accepted an offer to enter the banking and brokerage business in Boston. The firm of which he became a partner, operating under the name of Hornblower & Weeks, was successful from the start and became in time one of the largest and most respected financial houses in America. Weeks himself acquired a fortune and became a business figure of importance. Love for the navy led him to join the Massachusetts naval militia, and during the Spanish-American War he served with this body in its task of patrolling the Massachusetts coast. The social side of this affiliation Weeks prized greatly - conviviality was an outstanding trait in his nature -and he was never so happy as when attending one of the joyous dinners of the "Wardroom Club, " an organization of militia members, which were held on the Boston waterfront in a room modeled after the fashion of wardrooms in naval vessels. Weeks's first political office, that of alderman-at-large of the city of Newton, Massachussets, where he made his home, came to him in 1900 unsolicited, as did his election as mayor three years later. His experiences in these offices awakened in him a liking for politics with its human contacts, and consequently when in 1904 friends urged him to stand for Congress he consented. He was elected, gave up his business connections, and remained in the House of Representatives until 1913, when the Massachusetts legislature named him to succeed the retiring Winthrop Murray Crane as United States senator. Weeks's stay in the Senate was limited to one term; in 1918 he was defeated for reelection by David I. Walsh, Democrat. During the Harding-Cox presidential campaign of 1920 Weeks's service as chief of the New York headquarters of the Republican party won him the regard of Harding, who later named him secretary of war. He continued in this office until October 1925, when ill health compelled him to retire. As secretary of war he brought large business experience to the solution of the many problems left over from the war administration. In February 1925, when sensational controversy arose concerning the adequacy of the nation's air defenses, he appeared before a House investigating committee and contradicted charges made by William Mitchell, the brigadier-general and assistant chief of the army air service. He died in Lancaster, N. H.
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. Weeks's summer home where he died is now open for tours as part of the Weeks State Park. A nearby mountain was named Mount Weeks in his honor. The John W. Weeks Bridge, a footbridge over the Charles River on the campus of Harvard University in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named for Weeks and opened in 1927. The John Wingate Weeks Junior High School built in 1930 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, was named for him.
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His political views corresponded in the main to orthodox Republicanism. He was for a high tariff and retention of the Philippines. He preferred the Aldrich currency and banking proposals but, in lieu of them, voted for President Wilson's Federal Reserve Act. He was opposed to the prohibition and woman's suffrage amendments, and probably his vote against the latter had something to do with his defeat in the senatorial election of 1918.
In Congress, Weeks was hard-working, conscientious, and an able if not an eloquent speaker. He was tall, heavily and powerfully built, a man who without vanity set a correct appraisal on his superior abilities. His demeanor, simple and kindly, caused him to be universally liked and respected - "the smiling statesman" somebody called him.
He married on October 7, 1885, Martha A. Sinclair, by whom he had two children.
