MR WEEKS RESIGNS.
SERIOUSLY ILL. WASHINGTON, April 16. The Secretary for War (Mr John Wingate Weeks) lias resigned from the Coolidge Administration. Mr Weeks is seriously ill, as the result of a stroke. > Mr J. W. Weeks was born on April 11, 1860, and spent his childhood on a farm, later graduating at the United States Naval Academy. Retiring from the navy in 1889, he joined the firm of Homblower and Weeks, bankers and brokers, and first entered politics in 1906, when he was a member of the 59th to 62nd Congresses. He was a United States Senator from 1913-19, and Secretary of War in the Cabinets of Presidents Harding and CColidge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 5
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112MR WEEKS RESIGNS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 5
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