Edward Baldwin Whitney

Edward Baldwin Whitney (* 1857, † 1911), graduated from Yale University in 1878 successfully from, and was, like his fellow student William Howard Taft ( U.S. District Judge ), in the fraternity Skull & Bones. After Yale, he continued his studies at Columbia Law School and was called to the Bar in 1880 by New York among the directors, Bristow, Peet & Opdyke. In 1883 he founded together with a member of this company, General Henry L. Burnett, the company Burnett & Whitney.

Although he never held a political office, he was an active Democrat and an organizer of the National Association of Democratic Clubs; 1888 - 1890 Secretary of this organization. He was also secretary of the anti -Hill organization in New York; at the Convention of May in Syracuse, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Whitney was a trustee of the Reform Club, Century Club, Democratic Club, Skull & Bones, and for the Lawyers' Club of the bar association of New York. He was appointed by U.S. President Grover Cleveland to United States Assistant Attorney General.

He was the son of Professor William Dwight Whitney, the grandson of U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut, Roger Sherman Baldwin, and the father of Professor Hassler Whitney.

• Attorney (United States)
• Lawyer ( United States)
• Inverter ( USA )
• Member of the Democratic Party (United States)
• Americans
• Born in 1857
• Died in 1911
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