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American politician
Elisha Whittlesey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio
In office
March 4, 1823 – July 9, 1838
Preceded byNew District
Succeeded byJoshua Reed Giddings
Constituency13th district (1823–1833)
16th district (1833–1838)
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Trumbull County
In office
1820–1822
Preceded byHenry Lane
Henry Manning
Succeeded byCyrus Bosworth
James Mackey
Personal details
Born(1783-10-19)October 19, 1783
Washington, Connecticut
DiedJanuary 7, 1863(1863-01-07) (aged 79)
Washington, D.C.
Resting placeCanfield Cemetery, Canfield, Ohio
Political party
Other political
affiliations		Anti-Masonic

Elisha Whittlesey (October 19, 1783 – January 7, 1863) was an American politician, lawyer, civil servant and a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Biography

Born in Washington, Connecticut, Whittlesey moved with his parents in early youth to Salisbury, Connecticut. He attended the common schools at Danbury, and studied law there. He was admitted to the bar of Fairfield County and practiced in Danbury and Fairfield County. He also practiced in New Milford, Connecticut, in 1805. He moved to Canfield, Ohio, in 1806, where he practiced law and taught school. He served as prosecuting attorney of Mahoning County. He served as military and private secretary to Gen. William Henry Harrison and as brigade major in the Army of the Northwest in the War of 1812. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1820 and 1821.

Whittlesey was elected to the Eighteenth through Twenty-second Congresses, elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third Congress, and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, to July 9, 1838, when he resigned. He was one of the founders of the Whig Party. He served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Twenty-first through Twenty-fifth Congresses). He was Sixth Auditor of the Treasury from March 18, 1841, until December 18, 1843, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law in Canfield. He was appointed general agent of the Washington Monument Association in 1847. He was appointed by President Zachary Taylor as First Comptroller of the Treasury and served from May 31, 1849, to March 26, 1857, when he was removed by President James Buchanan. He was reappointed by President Abraham Lincoln April 10, 1861, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., January 7, 1863. He was interred in the Canfield Village Cemetery, Canfield, Ohio.

Family

He was an uncle of William Augustus Whittlesey and Charles Whittlesey, and a cousin of Frederick Whittlesey and Thomas Tucker Whittlesey.

Notes

  1. Poore 1878 : 228
  2. Poore, Benjamin Perley (1878). The political register and congressional directory: a statistical record of the Federal Officials...1776-1878. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company. p. 226. whittlesey.

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Offices and distinctions
Ohio House of Representatives
Preceded byHenry Lane
Henry Manning 		Representative from Trumbull County
1820–1822
Served alongside: Daniel Eaton (1820–1821), Thomas Howe (1821–1822) 		Succeeded byCyrus Bosworth
James Mackey
U.S. House of Representatives
New district Representative from Ohio's 13th congressional district
March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1833 		Succeeded byDavid Spangler
New district Representative from Ohio's 16th congressional district
March 4, 1833 – July 9, 1838 		Succeeded byJoshua Reed Giddings
Political offices
Preceded byJames W. McCullough First Comptroller of the United States Treasury
1849–1857 		Succeeded byWilliam Medill
Preceded byWilliam Medill First Comptroller of the United States Treasury
1861–1863 		Succeeded byRobert Walker Tayler, Sr.
Preceded byCharles K. Gardner Sixth Auditor of the United States Treasury
1841–1843 		Succeeded byMatthew St. Clair Clark
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 13th congressional district
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 16th congressional district
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