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Whitney, Thomas Richard

journalist, congressman, author, was born in 1804 in New York city. He served two years in the assembly of New York; devoted much of his life to literary pursuits, having been at one time editor of the New York Sunday News. He was the author of a poem called the Ambuscade, and a political work entitled The American Policy Vindicated. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1855 to 1857. He died April 12, 1858, in New York city.