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Charles Sinclair Weeks (June 15, 1893 – February 7, 1972), better known as Sinclair Weeks, served as United States Senator from Massachusetts (1944) and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1953 until 1958, during President Eisenhower's administration.
Feb 8, 1972 · CONCORD, Mass., Feb, 7—Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce in the Eisenhower Administration from 1953 until he resigned in 1958, died today. He was 78 years old and made his...
Sinclair Weeks was secretary of commerce under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to October 22, 1958. Weeks graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in 1914 and started work as a banker in Boston.
Nov 7, 1996 · My father, Sinclair Weeks, was a member of President Eisenhower's cabinet as Secretary of Commerce and was instrumental in implementing the Federal highway system. For all of us old enough to have driven across the country before the war, we know what an expedition it was.
Jun 30, 2023 · Sinclair Weeks was a conservative businessman from Massachusetts who had served in the United States Senate from February to December 1944, completing the term of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.. A graduate of Harvard University, Weeks was chairman of the board of United Carr Fastener Company of Cambridge; president of Reed and Barton Company ...
American public official and business executive Sinclair Weeks was an active member of the Republican Party. From 1953 to 1958 he served as secretary of commerce under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Charles Sinclair Weeks was born on June 15, 1893, in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of politician John Wingate Weeks.
On March 25, 1955, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks released the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) report on Needs of the Highway Systems, 1955-1984, as requested by Section 13 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954.
