Wheelock Whitney (politician)
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Wheelock "Whee" Whitney, Jr. is a Minneapolis philanthropist[1] and politician who attended Phillips Andover with George H.W. Bush[2]. He was the 1964 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Minnesota, losing to Eugene McCarthy, and he was the Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota in 1982[3]. He was part-owner and president of the Minnesota Vikings football team for a number of years[4]. Whitney is currently married to Kathleen A. Blatz, the former Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
