Edward Baldwin Whitney (August 16, 1857 – January 5, 1911) was an American lawyer and judge.

Life

Edward Baldwin Whitney was born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist

William Dwight Whitney William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution. He was ...

(1827–1894) of the

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. His mother was Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin, daughter of US Senator and Governor of

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. He graduated from

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, 1878, where he was a member of

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along with future US President

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. After Yale he went on to the

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and was admitted to the bar of New York, 1880. He was managing clerk, Bristow, Peet & Opdyke. In 1883, with General Henry Lawrence Burnett, who was a member of that firm, he formed the firm of Burnett & Whitney. He was a justice of the First District

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from 1909–1911. Aside from his judgeship, he never held elected office. He was an active Democrat and organizer of the national association of Democratic clubs, secretary from its organization, 1888–90. At the May 1892 convention at

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he was chosen as delegate to the National Democratic Convention at

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. Whitney was a trustee,

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; member, Century Club; Democratic Club;

; and of the Lawyers' club and of the bar association of

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. He was appointed by President

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to be

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of the United States. He married A. Josepha Newcomb, who was active in the suffrage movement. In 1912, she organized the first Cornwall meeting in support of voting rights for women, the daughter of astronomer and mathematician

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. Her sister,

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, was a doctor who helped establish the Army Nurse Corps. Their son

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was the famous

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mathematician. Their son William Dwight Whitney was an international attorney who represented actress Adrianne Allen in her divorce from actor

Raymond Massey Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice. For his lead role in '' Abe Lincoln in Illinois'' (1940), Massey was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Amo ...

; William Whitney then married Adrianne, and his first wife Dorothy married Raymond. Their son Simon N. Whitney was the chief economist and director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, 1956–1961, and also was an economist with the Federal Administration of Export Control. He died January 5, 1911. He had just been appointed to the New York State Supreme Court, and contracted a cold that turned into pneumonia on his return from being sworn in.

References

External links

William Dwight Whitney/Edward Baldwin Whitney at The Descendants of John Whitney, pages 486 - 490

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