William F. Whiting

William Fairfield Whiting

William Fairfield Whiting (* 20th July 1864 in Holyoke , Hampden County , Massachusetts , †  31 August 1936 ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the Cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge as trade minister ( Secretary of Commerce belonged).

The paper manufacturer Whiting, whose father William was one of the leading figures of the Republicans in Massachusetts and who had represented this state in the US House of Representatives between 1883 and 1889 , was also very active in party politics. For example, he was a delegate for Massachusetts at the Republican nomination conventions in 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1932. He made an appearance especially in 1920 when he campaigned for the presidential candidacy of his friend Calvin Coolidge. After Warren G. Harding had secured the nomination, it was above all Whiting's commitment that ensured that the delegates chose Coolidge against Harding's will as his running mate .

When Herbert Hoover , Minister of Commerce since 1921, was named the Republican candidate for the presidential election in the same year in mid-1928 , he resigned from office shortly afterwards to concentrate on the election campaign. His successor in the cabinet was William Whiting, who held this post until the end of Calvin Coolidge's tenure on March 4, 1929, and then left the government.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Time Magazine, September 7, 1936

Web links

• William F. Whiting in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
• The Political Graveyard