Background
Whitney, Edward Baldwin was born on August 16, 1857 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Professor William Dwight and Elizabeth W. (Baldwin) Whitney.
Whitney, Edward Baldwin was born on August 16, 1857 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Professor William Dwight and Elizabeth W. (Baldwin) Whitney.
Brother of Emily Henrietta and Marian Parker West. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1878. Law student Yale and Columbia.
Simon Newcomb, of Washington, April 11, 1896. In practice at New York, since 1880. Was 1st secretary National Association Democratic Clubs, 1888, and of “Anti-Snapper” organization, New York state.
1892.
Assistant attorney general United States, 1893-1897. As such took part in argument of the Income Tax case, the Debs case and other well known constitutional cases, and cases arising out of the interstate commerce law and the Cuban insurrection. Obtained the first judicial decision condemning a manufacturing trust under the Federal Anti-Trust Law (the so-called Addyston Pipe case, Nashville, 1898).
Lecturer on international law, New York Law School.
Counsel for the New York State Tenement House Commission, 1901. Member State Investigation Commission, 1908.
Member State Investigation Commission
Married Josepha, daughter