Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) — of Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.;LuzerneCounty, Pa.; Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.Born in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,July 17,1745.Farmer;EssexCounty Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge inMassachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts statelegislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during theRevolutionary War;delegateto Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789;U.S.Postmaster General, 1791-95;U.S.Secretary of War, 1795;U.S.Secretary of State, 1795-1800;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2ndDistrict 1815-17); member ofMassachusettsGovernor's Council, 1817-18.Puritan;laterUnitarian.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati.Censuredby the Senate in 1811 for violating aninjunctionof secrecy.Died in Salem,EssexCounty, Mass.,January29, 1829 (age83 years, 196days).Interment atBroadStreet Cemetery, Salem, Mass.| |  Relatives: Sonof Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering;married,April 8,1776, to Rebecca White; granduncle ofDudleyLeavitt Pickman; second great-granduncle ofJohnGardner Coolidge andAugustusPeabody Gardner; third great-granduncle ofJohnLee Saltonstall; fourth great-granduncle ofLeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall,WilliamGurdon Saltonstall,JohnLee Saltonstall Jr. andWilliamAmory Gardner Minot; fifth great-granduncle ofMariettaPeabody Tree,EndicottPeabody,WilliamLawrence Saltonstall andJohnForbes Kerry; ancestor *** ofSusanWalker FitzGerald; first cousin once removed ofBenjaminGoodhue andJohnWingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed ofJohnWingate Weeks (1860-1926); first cousin four times removed ofCharlesSinclair Weeks; second cousin twice removed ofJohnAlbion Andrew; second cousin thrice removed ofIsaacLibbey,JohnForrester Andrew andHenryHersey Andrew; second cousin four times removed ofLlewellynLibby andWilliamF. Nason; second cousin five times removed ofAugustineB. Libby,AlbanahHarvey Libby andFrederickEdwin Hanscom; third cousin once removed ofLutherWalter Badger; third cousin twice removed ofAmosTuck; third cousin thrice removed ofHiramAugustus Huse (1840-1907) andHiramAugustus Huse (1843-1902). | | | | Political families:Weeksfamily of Lancaster, New Hampshire;Pickmanfamily of Salem, Massachusetts (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Timothy Pickering: DavidMcLean,TimothyPickering and the Age of the American Revolution —Gerald H. Clarfield,TimothyPickering and the American Republic |
| | John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853) — also known asJohn W. Weeks — of Lancaster,CoosCounty, N.H.Born in Greenland,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,March31, 1781.Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member ofNewHampshire state senate 12th District, 1826-29;U.S.Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1829-33.Died in Lancaster,CoosCounty, N.H.,April 3,1853 (age72 years, 3days).Interment atOldCemetery, Lancaster, N.H.| | Relatives: Sonof John Weeks and Deborah (Brackett) Weeks; married,November17, 1805, to Martha Weeks Brackett; married,March15, 1821, to Persis de la Fayette Everett; granduncle ofJohnWingate Weeks (1860-1926); great-granduncle ofCharlesSinclair Weeks; first cousin once removed ofTimothyPickering; second cousin once removed ofDudleyLeavitt Pickman; second cousin thrice removed ofJohnGardner Coolidge andAugustusPeabody Gardner; second cousin four times removed ofJohnLee Saltonstall; second cousin five times removed ofLeverettSaltonstall,RichardSaltonstall,WilliamGurdon Saltonstall,WilliamAmory Gardner Minot andJohnLee Saltonstall Jr.; third cousin twice removed ofIsaacLibbey andEugeneHarvey Libby; third cousin thrice removed ofLlewellynLibby,WilliamF. Nason andAlvinGardner Weeks; fourth cousin ofLutherWalter Badger; fourth cousin once removed ofEleazerPomeroy andAmosTuck. | | | | Political family:Weeksfamily of Lancaster, New Hampshire (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage |
| | John G. Sinclair (b. 1826) — of Bethlehem,GraftonCounty, N.H.Born in Barnstead,BelknapCounty, N.H.,April25, 1826.Democrat. Member ofNewHampshire state senate 12th District, 1858-60; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from New Hampshire,1864.Burial location unknown.  | John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926) — also known asJohn W. Weeks — of West Newton, Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.Born in Lancaster,CoosCounty, N.H.,April11, 1860.Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War;mayorof Newton, Mass., 1902-03;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 12th District, 1905-13;resigned 1913;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1913-19; defeated, 1918; candidatefor Republican nomination for President,1916;delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1916;member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Massachusetts, 1920;U.S.Secretary of War, 1921-25.Unitarian.Died in Lancaster,CoosCounty, N.H.,July 12,1926 (age66 years, 92days).Cremated;ashes interred atArlingtonNational Cemetery, Arlington, Va.| | Relatives: Sonof William Dennison Weeks and Mary Helen (Fowler) Weeks; married,October7, 1885, to Martha Aroline Sinclair; father ofCharlesSinclair Weeks; grandnephew ofJohnWingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin thrice removed ofTimothyPickering; third cousin once removed ofDudleyLeavitt Pickman; third cousin twice removed ofNathanRead; third cousin thrice removed ofTimothyBigelow; fourth cousin once removed ofSilasWright Jr.,RufusHeaton,AlexanderWheelock Thayer,JoshuaGrosvenor Abbe,SamuelBadger Abbe,JohnOgden Bigelow,JohnGardner Coolidge andAugustusPeabody Gardner. | | | | Political family:Weeksfamily of Lancaster, New Hampshire (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:OvingtonE. Weller | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier | | | | Image source: American Review ofReviews, March 1922 |
| | | Alvin Gardner Weeks (1866-1924) — also known asAlvin G. Weeks — of Fall River,BristolCounty, Mass.Born in St. Albans,SomersetCounty, Maine,October22, 1866.Lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts,1912;Progressive candidate forU.S.Representative from Massachusetts 15th District, 1912, 1914.Died in Fall River,BristolCounty, Mass.,March24, 1924 (age57 years, 154days).Burial location unknown.  | Charles Sinclair Weeks (1893-1972) — also known asSinclair Weeks — of Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.; Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Lancaster,CoosCounty, N.H.Born in West Newton, Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,June 15,1893.Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served inthe U.S. Army during World War I;banker;mayor ofNewton, Mass., 1930-35; delegate to Republican NationalConvention from Massachusetts,1932,1940,1944,1948,1952,1956(speaker);MassachusettsRepublican state chair, 1936-38; member ofRepublicanNational Committee from Massachusetts, 1940-53;Treasurerof Republican National Committee, 1941-44;U.S.Senator from Massachusetts, 1944; appointed 1944;U.S.Secretary of Commerce, 1953-58.Unitarian.Member,Freemasons;ScottishRite Masons;AmericanLegion;Sons ofthe American Revolution;Societyof the Cincinnati.Died, in the RivercrestNursingHome, Concord,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,February7, 1972 (age78 years, 237days).Interment atSummerStreet Cemetery, Lancaster, N.H.| | Relatives: Sonof Martha (Sinclair) Weeks andJohnWingate Weeks (1860-1926); married,December4, 1915, to Beatrice Lee Dowse; married,January3, 1948, to Jane (Tompkins) Rankin; married,August22, 1968, to Alice Pauline (Requa) Low; grandson ofJohnG. Sinclair; great-grandnephew ofJohnWingate Weeks (1781-1853); first cousin four times removed ofTimothyPickering; third cousin twice removed ofDudleyLeavitt Pickman; third cousin thrice removed ofNathanRead. | | | | Political family:Weeksfamily of Lancaster, New Hampshire (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:MaxwellM. Rabb | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Image source: Eminent Americans(1954) |
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