William Whiting II (politician)

Infobox Congressman
name =William Whiting


state =Massachusetts
district =11th [Citation |last = Poore | first = Ben: Perley| year = 1884 | title = Official Congressional Directory | page = 42 | publisher = United States Congress | location = Washington, D.C. | date = 1884]
term_start =March 4, 1883
term_end =March 3, 1889
preceded =George D. Robinson
succeeded =Rodney Wallace
order2 =3rd
office2 = Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts
term_start2 = 1878
term_end2 = 1879
preceded2 = Roswell P. Crafts [Citation |last = Copeland | first = Alfred Minot | year = 1902 | title = "Our County and Its People" a History of Hampden County, Massachusetts v. 3 | page = 17 | publisher =The Century Memorial Pub. Co. | location = Boston, MA | date = 1902]
succeeded2 = William Ruddy [Citation |last = Copeland | first = Alfred Minot | year = 1902 | title = "Our County and Its People" a History of Hampden County, Massachusetts v. 3 | page = 17 | publisher =The Century Memorial Pub. Co. | location = Boston, MA | date = 1902]
order3 = 2nd
office3 = Treasurer of the City of Holyoke, Massachusetts
term_start3 = 1876
term_end3 = 1877
preceded3 = Charles W. Ranlet [Citation |last = Copeland | first = Alfred Minot | year = 1902 | title = "Our County and Its People" a History of Hampden County, Massachusetts v. 3 | page = 17 | publisher =The Century Memorial Pub. Co. | location = Boston, MA | date = 1902]
succeeded3 = Charles W. Ranlet [Citation |last = Copeland | first = Alfred Minot | year = 1902 | title = "Our County and Its People" a History of Hampden County, Massachusetts v. 3 | page = 17 | publisher =The Century Memorial Pub. Co. | location = Boston, MA | date = 1902]
office4 = Massachusetts State Senate
term_start4 = 1873
term_end4 = 1874
preceded4 =
succeeded4 =
office5 = School Committee of the Town of Holyoke, Massachusetts
term_start5 = 1868 [Citation |last = Copeland | first = Alfred Minot | year = 1902 | title = "Our County and Its People" a History of Hampden County, Massachusetts v. 3 | page = 39 | publisher =The Century Memorial Pub. Co. | location = Boston, MA | date = 1902]
term_end5 = 1868 [Citation |last = Copeland | first = Alfred Minot | year = 1902 | title = "Our County and Its People" a History of Hampden County, Massachusetts v. 3 | page = 39 | publisher =The Century Memorial Pub. Co. | location = Boston, MA | date = 1902]
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succeeded5 =
birth_date =May 24, 1841
birth_place =Dudley, Massachusetts
death_date =January 9, 1911
death_place =Holyoke, Massachusetts
nationality =
party =Republican
spouse =Anna Fairfield Whiting [Citation |last = Clark | first = Rusty | year = 2004 | title = Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone | page = 155 | publisher = Dog Pond Press | location = West Springfield, MA | date = 2004 ISBN 0975536265]
relations =
children =William Fairfield Whiting, Samuel Raynor Whiting [Citation |last = Clark | first = Rusty | year = 2004 | title = Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone | pages = 155-156 | publisher = Dog Pond Press | location = West Springfield, MA | date = 2004 ISBN 0975536265]
residence =Holyoke, Massachusetts
alma_mater =Amherst College
occupation =Paper Maker
profession =
religion = Congregationalist [Citation |last = Cutter | first = William Richard | year = 1910 | title = Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts| page = 980 | publisher = Lewis Historical Pub. Co. | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1910]


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William Whiting (May 24, 1841-January 9, 1911) was an American businessman and politician from Holyoke, Massachusetts. Whiting descended from an English family who first settled in Lynn, Massachusetts 1636. [Citation |last = Clark | first = Rusty | year = 2004 | title = Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone | page = 155 | publisher = Dog Pond Press | location = West Springfield, MA | date = 2004 ISBN 0975536265]

Whiting was born in Dudley, Worcester County, Mass., May 24, 1841. Whiting attended public schools and graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. [Citation |last = Clark | first = Rusty | year = 2004 | title = Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone | page = 155 | publisher = Dog Pond Press | location = West Springfield, MA | date = 2004 ISBN 0975536265]

Whiting worked for the Holyoke Paper Company and the Hampden Paper Company. At the age of 17 Whiting started at the Holyoke Paper Company working first as a bookkeeper. After three years working as a clerk Whiting became a salesman first working out of the company's main office and later working as a commercial traveling salesman. [Citation |last = White | first = James Terry White | year = 1910 | title = The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. Supplement 1| page = 481 | publisher = J.T. White and Co. | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1910] Whiting organized the Whiting Paper Company in Holyoke, Mass in 1865. [Citation |last = Weeks | first = Lyman Horace | year = 1916 | title = A history of paper-manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 | page = 247 | publisher = The Lockwood Trade Journal Company | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1916] In 1865 Whiting built his first mill followed by another in 1872. [Citation |last = Weeks | first = Lyman Horace | year = 1916 | title = A history of paper-manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 | page = 247 | publisher = The Lockwood Trade Journal Company | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1916] When the Whiting Paper Company was first formed L.L. Brown of South Adams, Massachusetts was president and William Whiting was agent and treasure, later William Whiting became president and his son William Fairfield Whiting became treasure. [Citation |last = Weeks | first = Lyman Horace | year = 1916 | title = A history of paper-manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 | page = 247 | publisher = The Lockwood Trade Journal Company | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1916]

Whiting later organized the Collins Paper Company and built a paper mill in North Wilbraham, Massachusetts. [Citation |last = Weeks | first = Lyman Horace | year = 1916 | title = A history of paper-manufacturing in the United States, 1690-1916 | page = 247 | publisher = The Lockwood Trade Journal Company | location = New York, N.Y. | date = 1916]

Whiting was a member of the State Senate in 1873; city treasurer of Holyoke in 1876 and 1877; mayor of Holyoke in 1878 and 1879; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 and 1896; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination in 1888; commissioner to the World’s Exposition in Paris, France, in 1900; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits. Whiting died in Holyoke, Mass. on January 9, 1911 and was interred in Forestdale Cemetery Holyoke, Massachusetts. [Citation |last = Clark | first = Rusty | year = 2004 | title = Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone | page = 155 | publisher = Dog Pond Press | location = West Springfield, MA | date = 2004 ISBN 0975536265]

William Whiting's son William F. Whiting was a close friend and adviser to President Calvin Coolidge [Citation |last = Clark | first = Rusty | year = 2004 | title = Holyoke, Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone | page = 155 | publisher = Dog Pond Press | location = West Springfield, MA | date = 2004 ISBN 0975536265] . Serving for a time as Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce.

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* [http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/whiting-william-W000418.html Whiting, William]

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