William Augustus Whittlesey (July 14, 1796 – November 6, 1866) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a
U.S. Representative from
Ohio from 1849 to 1851. He was the nephew of
Elisha Whittlesey.
Biography
Born in
Danbury, Connecticut
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, Whittlesey attended the common schools and was graduated from
Yale College in 1816.
He was a tutor at the college.
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He moved to Canfield, Ohio, in 1818.
He studied law at Canfield with Elisha Whittlesey, and later studied with Joshua Reed Giddings.][
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Congress
Whittlesey was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851).
He did not seek renomination in 1850.
Later career and death
He resumed the practice of law.
He served as mayor of Marietta in 1856, 1860, and 1862.
He died in Brooklyn, New York, where he had gone for medical treatment, on November 6, 1866.
He was interred in Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.
Whittlesey was married to Jane Hobby, October 25, 1838. They had four children. Mrs. Whittlesey died February 10, 1896, at the home of her daughter in St. Cloud, Minnesota
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1796 births
1866 deaths
Yale College alumni
Politicians from Marietta, Ohio
Mayors of places in Ohio
Democratic Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio lawyers
Burials at Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio)
19th-century American politicians
People from Canfield, Ohio
19th-century American lawyers
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio