John Sibley Whalen

John Sibley Whalen (born June 30, 1868 in Rochester , New York , † May 3, 1913 ) was an American politician . He was Secretary of State of New York from 1907 to 1909 .

Career

John Sibley Whalen, son of Richard Whalen of Rochester, one of the oldest tobacco traders in the United States , was born and raised in Monroe County, New York , about three years after the end of the Civil War . He graduated from St. Patrick's Parochial School. He then went to Rochester High School and the Rochester Business Institute. In the following years he became involved in the cigar and tobacco business in Norwich and Oneonta (New York). He later returned to Rochester, where he worked in his father's company. He was a member of the Tobacco Workers' Union and President of the Rochester Trade and Labor Council. The governor of New York John Alden Dix appointed him First Deputy State Labor Commissioner. The Independence League and the Democratic Party nominated him in 1906 for the office of Secretary of State of New York. In November 1906 he won an election. In his re-election in 1908, however, he suffered a defeat.

literature

• The New International Year Book. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1914, p. 483.
• The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, 1913
• Proceedings of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress , Volume 1, The Congress, 1907, p. 239
• Independence Vacancies Filled By Democrats , The New York Times, September 30, 1906

Web links

• John Sibley Whalen on The Political Graveyard website