Edward Baldwin Whitney
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Edward Baldwin Whitney, (August 16, 1857-January 5, 1911) was an American lawyer and judge.
He graduated from Yale College, 1878; Judge William H. Taft, United States circuit court was one of his classmates. After Yale he went on to the Columbia Law School and was admitted to the bar of New York, 1880; managing clerk, Bristow, Peet & Opdyke. In 1883, with General Henry L. Burnett, who was a member of that firm, he formed the firm of Burnett & Whitney. He was a justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1909-1911.
Although 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. Secretary, anti-Hill organization in New York up to the time of the February convention last year, when it was reorganized. At the May convention at Syracuse he was chosen as delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago.
Whitney was a trustee, Reform Club; member, Century Club; Democratic Club; Skull & Bones; and of the Lawyers' club and of the bar association of New York. Appointed by President Cleveland to be Assistant Attorney General of the United States.
He was the son of Professor William Dwight Whitney, the grandson of US Senator & Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin and the father of Professor Hassler Whitney. He married A. Josepha Newcomb, the daughter of famed astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb.
