Wheelock Whitney, Jr.

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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] losing to Rudy Perpich. 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.

Wheelock Whitney has been involved with the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing for many years. His best known horse was Quicken Tree, a California runner in the 1960s whose wins included the Santa Anita Handicap. [5]