George H. Whitney

George H. Whitney (1916)

George Herbert Whitney (August 19, 1863 in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts – April 22, 1928 in Mechanicville, Saratoga County, New York) was an American pharmacist and politician from New York.

Life

George H. Whitney (1903)

He was the son of George Fenn Whitney. He attended the public schools in Stockbridge, and then began to work as a drugstore clerk, first in Castleton-on-Hudson, New York, then in Hudson, New York, and then in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1884, he passed the New York State pharmacy exam, the next year began managing his brother-in-law's drugstore in Mechanicville, and succeeded to the business in 1887.

He was Treasurer of the Village of Mechanicville for two terms; and Supervisor of the Town of Halfmoon for several terms beginning in 1898.

Whitney was a member of the New York State Assembly (Saratoga Co.) in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1912; and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Health in 1908, on Internal Affairs in 1909 and 1910, and on Ways and Means in 1912.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (30th D.) from 1913 to 1918, sitting in the 136th, 137th, 138th, 139th, 140th and 141st New York State Legislatures. He was a member of the New York State Commission for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

He died on April 22, 1928, in Mechanicville, New York, of a heart attack.

Sources

• Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 347, 349, 351f, 354, 356f and 359)
• The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 188)
• State of New York at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915 (Albany, 1916; pg. 32 and 35)
• Obituary; Ex-Senator George H. Whitney in NYT on April 23, 1928 (subscription required)