Weeks was born in
Mount Clemens, Michigan, where he attended the public schools and learned the printing trade. He studied law and was admitted to the
bar in January 1861. During the
Civil War, he served in Company B, Fifth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was first sergeant of the company. He became first lieutenant and adjutant of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry in 1862 and captain in 1863. He was appointed assistant inspector general of the Third Brigade, Second Division, Reserve Corps,
Army of the Cumberland, in 1863 and was mustered out in December 1863. After the war, he was proprietor and editor of a
Republican newspaper in Mount Clemens and commenced the practice of law in Mount Clemens in 1866. He served as prosecuting attorney 1867-1870 and then as judge of probate of
Macomb County, 1870–1876. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to the
49th United States Congress, but in 1898 was elected as a Republican from
Michigan's 7th congressional district to the
56th Congress. He was re-elected to the
57th Congress, serving from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1903. He was chair of the
Committee on Elections No. 3 in the 57th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902, losing in the Republican primary election to
Henry McMorran, who went on to be elected to fill Weeks's seat in the House. Edgar Weeks resumed the practice of law and died at the age of sixty-five in Mount Clemens, where he is interred in the
Clinton Grove Cemetery. Edgar Weeks' cousin,
John W. Weeks, was a
U.S. Representative and
U.S. Senator from
Massachusetts, and
U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents
Warren G. Harding and
Calvin Coolidge. ==References==