Frederick Whittlesey (June 12, 1799 – September 19, 1851) was aU.S. Representative fromNew York, cousin ofElisha Whittlesey andThomas Tucker Whittlesey.

Born inNew Preston, Connecticut, Whittlesey pursued academic studies.He graduated fromYale College in 1818 where he studied law.He wasadmitted to the bar inUtica, New York, in 1821 and commenced practice inCooperstown, New York, early in 1822. Later in the year, he moved toRochester, New York where he became Treasurer ofMonroe County in 1829 and 1830.

Whittlesey was elected as anAnti-Masonic candidate to theTwenty-second andTwenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in theDepartment of War (Twenty-third Congress) before resuming the practice of law. Whittlesey served as the City Attorney of Rochester in 1838 and as vice chancellor of the eighth judicial district of New York from 1839 to 1847.He became justice of the State supreme court in 1847 and 1848 and then a professor of law at Genesee College (nowSyracuse University) in 1850 and 1851. He was also Vice President of theUniversity of Rochester. He died oftyphus fever inRochester, New York, September 19, 1851 and was interred inMount Hope Cemetery.^[1]

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