William F. Whiting

William Fairfield Whiting ( born July 20, 1864 in Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts; † August 31, 1936 ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who belonged to the Cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge as Trade Minister ( Secretary of Commerce ).

The paper manufacturer Whiting, whose father William was counted among the leading minds of Republicans in Massachusetts and represent this state 1883-1889 in the U.S. House of Representatives, was also politically very active. He was a delegate for Massachusetts in the Republican Party nomination days in the years 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1932. Doing so, he joined in 1920 mainly in appearance, as he campaigned for the presidential nomination of Calvin Coolidge friend of his. After Warren G. Harding had secured the nomination, it was mainly used Whiting, who saw to it that the delegates voted against Coolidge Harding's will to his running mate.

When Herbert Hoover, since 1921 Minister of Commerce, was named mid-1928 to the Republican candidates for the presidential election in the same year, shortly after his office resigned this in order to focus on the election campaign. His successor in the Cabinet went to William Whiting, who retained the post until the end of the term of office of Calvin Coolidge on March 4, 1929 and then retired again from the government.