William F. Whiting

Infobox US Cabinet official
name =William Fairfield Whiting

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state =Massachusetts
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term_start =August 22, 1928
term_end =March 4, 1929
preceded =Herbert Hoover
succeeded =Robert P. Lamont
birth_date =July 20, 1864
birth_place =Holyoke, Massachusetts
death_date =August 31, 1936
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party =Republican
spouse =Anne Chapin [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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children =William Whiting, Edward Chapin Whiting, Fairfield Whiting, Ruth Whiting [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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alma_mater =Amherst [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]
occupation =Paper Maker
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William Fairfield Whiting (born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on July 20, 1864, died August 31, 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce August 22, 1928 to March 4, 1929, during the last months of the administration of Calvin Coolidge.

Whiting was the son of Massachusetts politician and businessman William Whiting. When his father who organized the Whiting Paper Company became president of that business, 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] When his father died William F. Whiting became president of the Whiting Paper Compant and his brother Samuel Raynor Whiting became treasurer. [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 is interred in Forestdale Cemetery along with his parents. [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]

References

External links

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whiting.html Political Graveyard]