Alongside his public offices, Sándor Wekerle was also an agricultural entrepreneur, modernizing his estates to the highest standards of the time, where he established a mill, a distillery, and an electric power plant.

In 1886 Wekerle was elected to the House of Deputies, became in the same year financial secretary of state, and in 1889 succeeded Kálmán Tisza as minister of finance.

He immediately addressed himself to the task of improving the financial position of the country, carried out the conversion of the state loans, and succeeded, for the first time in the history of the Hungarian budget, in avoiding a deficit.

At the head of a strong government he was enabled, in spite of a powerful opposition of Catholics and Magnates, to carry in 1894 the Civil Marriage Bill.

On 1 January 1897 he was appointed president of the newly created judicial commission at Budapest, and for the next few years held aloof from politics, even under the ex-lex government of Khuen-Héderváry.

On the reconciliation of the king-emperor with the coalition he was therefore selected as the most suitable man to lead the new government, and on 8 April 1906 was appointed prime minister, taking at the same time the portfolio of finance.

Due to the political changes that occurred after his death, Sándor Wekerle's contributions were not appropriately recognized in Hungary, neither during the interwar period nor in the post-1945 era.

In 2011, through a civic initiative involving the political leadership of Mór, civil organizations, economic stakeholders, and the local population's exemplary cooperation, a full-length public monument was erected as part of the Wekerle Memorial Year.