John O. Whitehouse Explained

John Osborne Whitehouse
District:13th
Predecessor:Joseph H. Tuthill
Successor:John H. Ketcham
State:New York
Party:Democrat
Birth Date:19 July 1817
Birth Place:Rochester, New Hampshire, United States
Death Place:Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Resting Place:Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Termstart:March 4, 1873
Termend:March 3, 1877

John Osborne Whitehouse (July 19, 1817 – August 24, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Biography

John O. Whitehouse was born in Rochester, New Hampshire on July 19, 1817. He received a common-school education and moved to New York City in 1835, where he worked as a clerk. In 1839, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he was engaged as a merchant and manufacturer of shoes. He moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1860 and continued the shoe manufacturing business.

Whitehouse was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1877). He served as chairman of the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service (Forty-fourth Congress). He was not a candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress. He resumed the shoe manufacturing business. He was also interested in banking and railroading. He was owner of the Daily News 1872–1880.

Death and burial

He died in Poughkeepsie, New York, August 24, 1881. He was interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.