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{{short description|American politician}} {{redirect|Charles Weeks|the American architect, Charles Peter Weeks|Weeks and Day}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Sinclair Weeks |image = CharlesSinclairWeeks.jpg |office = 13th [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] |president = [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] |term_start = January 21, 1953 |term_end = November 10, 1958 |predecessor = [[Charles W. Sawyer]] |successor = [[Lewis Strauss]] (acting) |jr/sr1 = United States Senator |state1 = [[Massachusetts]] |appointer1 = [[Leverett Saltonstall]] |term_start1 = February 8, 1944 |term_end1 = December 19, 1944 |predecessor1 = [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]] |successor1 = [[Leverett Saltonstall]] |office2 = Chair of the [[Massachusetts Republican Party]] |term_start2 = 1936 |term_end2 = 1938 |predecessor2 = Vernon Marr |successor2 = [[Carroll Meins]] |office3 = [[List of mayors of Newton, Massachusetts|Mayor of Newton]] |term_start3 = 1930 |term_end3 = 1935 |predecessor3 = Edwin Childs |successor3 = Edwin Childs |birth_date = {{birth date|1893|6|15}} |birth_place = [[Newton, Massachusetts|Newton]], [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1972|2|7|1893|6|15}} |death_place = [[Concord, Massachusetts|Concord]], [[Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]] |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |relatives = [[John W. Weeks|John Weeks]] (Father) |education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) |allegiance = {{flag|United States}} |branch = {{army|United States}} |unit = [[Army National Guard]] |battles = [[World War I]] | nationality = [[Americans|American]] |signature = Sinclair Weeks signature.png }} '''Charles Sinclair Weeks''' (June 15, 1893{{spaced ndash}}February 7, 1972), better known as '''Sinclair Weeks''', was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from [[Massachusetts]] in 1944 and as [[United States Secretary of Commerce]] from 1953 until 1958, during President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]'s administration.
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