Whiting Griswold

American politician

Whiting Griswold

Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853
In office 1853–1853
Member of the Massachusetts Senate^[1]
In office 1851–1852
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives^[1]
In office 1848–1850

Personal details
Born	November 12, 1814 Buckland, Massachusetts
Died	October 28, 1874 (aged 59) Greenfield, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Political party	Democrat, Free Soil
Spouse	Fannie L. Clark
Children	Freeman Clark Griswold
Alma mater	Amherst College, 1838
Profession	Attorney^[1]

Whiting Griswold (November 12, 1814 – October 28, 1874) was an American abolitionist, lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in the Massachusetts Senate.^[1] In 1864 Griswold was a presidential elector from Massachusetts for Abraham Lincoln.

Career

In 1842 Griswold was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar at Northampton, Massachusetts.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ulman, H. Charles (1872), Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States: Containing Federal Officers ... Foreign Ministers and Consuls; State, County, and City Officials; Judiciary ... with a ... Digest of the Laws of the Several States, Touching ... Commercial Law; with Laws Relating to the Descent of Property, New York, New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., p. 578

External links

The Library of Congress Whiting Griswold correspondence, 1843-1874
Whiting Griswold Papers, 1837-1890. University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Whiting Griswold Correspondence A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress
Griswold Family Papers, 1836-1888. Chapin Library, Williams College