Thompson Weeks

{{short description|19th century American politician.}}

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{{infobox officeholder

|name = Thompson Weeks

|office = President pro tempore of the {{nowrap|Wisconsin Senate}}

| term_start = January 7, 1895

| term_end = January 4, 1897

| predecessor = Robert MacBride

| successor = Lyman W. Thayer

|office1 = Member of the {{nowrap|Wisconsin Senate}}

|constituency1 = 24th Senate district

| term_start1 = January 2, 1893

| term_end1 = January 4, 1897

| predecessor1 = Charles Simeon Taylor

| successor1 = John W. Whelan

|constituency2 = 8th Senate district

| term_start2 = January 5, 1874

| term_end2 = January 3, 1876

| predecessor2 = Samuel Pratt

| successor2 = Asahel Farr

|state3 = Wisconsin

|state_assembly3 = Wisconsin

|district3 = Walworth 3rd

| term_start3 = January 7, 1867

| term_end3 = January 6, 1868

| predecessor3 = Shepard O. Raymond

| successor3 = George A. Ray

|party = Republican

|birth_date = {{birth date|1832|11|5}}

|birth_place = Norwich, Massachusetts, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1901|2|12|1832|11|5}}

|death_place = Whitewater, Wisconsin, U.S.

|restingplace = Hillside Cemetery, {{nowrap|Whitewater, Wisconsin}}

|spouse = {{marriage|Adelaide M. Hall|1865|1901}}

|children = {{unbulleted list

| Helen Louise (Wakeley)

| (b. 1866; died 1907)

}}

|education = {{unbulleted list

| Lawrence University

| Albany Law School

}}

|profession = lawyer

}}

Thompson Dimock Weeks (November 5, 1832{{spnd}}February 12, 1901) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served six years in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Walworth County, and was president pro tempore of the Senate during the 1895–1896 session. He also served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Born in Norwich, Massachusetts, he settled in Lyons, Wisconsin Territory, in 1843. Weeks then moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin in 1860. Weeks graduated from Lawrence University in 1858 and Albany Law School in 1859. He then practiced law in Wisconsin. Weeks served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1867 as a Republican and then in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1874 and in 1895. Weeks also served on the board or regents for Wisconsin normal schools. He died in Whitewater, Wisconsin.'Wisconsin Blue Book 1895,' Biographical Sketch of Thompson D. Weeks,' pg. 670'History of Walworth County, Wisconsin,' Albert Clayton Beckwith, Bowen: 1912, Spencer Weeks, pg. 1107-1110 (information about Thompson Weeks in this section)

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