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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (December 10, 1864 – June 3, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the
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from 1921 to 1923.


Early life

Wainwright was born Manhattan, New York City to John Howard Wainwright and Margaret Livingston ( née Stuyvesant) Wainwright. His older brother was Stuyvesant Wainwright (father of Carroll Livingston Wainwright I). His maternal grandfather was Nicholas Stuyvesant, a son of
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, grandson of the merchant Peter Stuyvesant, all direct descendants of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam. U.S. Army General Jonathan M. Wainwright was his cousin. Wainwright graduated from Columbia College; from Columbia School of Political Science in 1884, and from
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in 1886. While at Columbia, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall.


Career

In 1886, he was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in New York City and in
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. He served in the Twelfth Infantry of the New York National Guard (1889–1903), and in the
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as captain of the Twelfth Regiment of New York Volunteers. Wainwright was a member of the New York State Assembly in
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,
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,
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,
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,
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(all five Westchester Co., 2nd D.),
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and 1908 (both Westchester Co., 4th D.). He was a member of the New York State Senate (24th D.) from 1909 to 1912, sitting in the
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, 133rd,
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and
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s. He was appointed as a member of the first New York State Workmen's Compensation Commission in 1914 and served until 1915. He served as lieutenant colonel, inspector general's department, New York National Guard, on the Mexican border in 1916. During the
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, Wainwright served as a lieutenant colonel in the Twenty-seventh Division from 1917 to 1919. He was appointed by President
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to serve as
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from March 14, 1921, to March 4, 1923, when he resigned. Wainwright was elected as a
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to the 68th, 69th, 70th and
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es, holding office from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1931. He resumed the practice of law and served as a member of the Westchester County Park Commission from 1930 to 1937.


Personal life

He married Laura Wallace Buchanan (1865–1946) on November 23, 1892 in New York. Together, they were the parents of: * Fonrose Wainwright (1893–1983), who married Phillip King Condict (1880–1949). He died on June 3, 1945, in
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. He was buried at the Greenwood Union Cemetery there.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wainwright, J Mayhew 1864 births 1945 deaths J Mayhew Columbia Law School alumni United States Army officers Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly Republican Party New York (state) state senators Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) United States Assistant Secretaries of War Columbia College (New York) alumni