Sumner G. Whittier

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name= Sumner Gage Whittier


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order= 58th
office= Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
term_start= 1953
term_end= 1957
governor= Christian Herter
predecessor= Charles F. Sullivan
successor= Robert F. Murphy
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party= Republican
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Sumner Gage Whittier (*1911) is a retired American politician who served two two-year terms as Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957. He was the Republican candidate for governor in 1956, but lost to Democrat Foster Furcolo. He was then appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to head the U.S. Veterans Administration, a position he held until 1964. Thereafter he worked at various agencies in Washington.

Previously he was an Alderman in the City of Everett, a State Representative, and a State Senator. He graduated from Boston University in 1936. The Sumner G. Whittier School in Everett is named after him.

Mr. Whittier currently resides in Ellicott City, Maryland.

External Links

2000 B.U. Alumni profile [http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2000/summer/profiles/whittier/index.html]

Social Security History photo [http://www.ssa.gov/history/sumner1.html]

90th birthday celebration, 2001 [http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2001/fall/news/index.html]