Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Whitney, Thomas Richard

WHITNEY, Thomas Richard, author, b. in New York city in 1804; d. there, 12 April, 1858. He served two years in the assembly of the state in 1854-'5, and one term in congress in 1855-'7, having been elected by the American party. Mr. Whitney was editorially connected with the New York “Sunday Times” and other papers, and published “The Ambuscade,” a poem (New York, 1845), and “Defence of the American Policy as opposed to the Encroachments of Foreign Influence, and especially to the Interference of the Papacy” (1856).