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Reid (WHITELAW an American editor)

WHITELAW, an American editor; born in Xenia, O., O., Oct. 27, 1837.

He He was graduated at Miami University in 1856; was on the editorial staff of several leading Ohio papers; in 1869 became managing editor of the New York "Tribune," and, after 1872, editor-inchief and in financial control. He twice declined appointment as minister to Germany; and was minister to France in 1889-1892, where he negotiated valuable reciprocity treaties. In 1892 he was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice-President. He represented the REIGATE United States as special ambassador at Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1897; member of the American-Spanish Peace Com- mission in 1898; special ambassador of the United States at the coronation of King Edward VII. in 1902, and am- bassador 1905-1912. He is author of: "Ohio in the War" (1868) ; "Schools of Journalism" (1871) "The Scholar in Politics" (1873); "Some Consequences of the Last Treaty of Paris" (1899); "Our New Duties" and "Later Aspects of Our New Duties" (1899); "Our New Interests" (1900); "Problems of Expansion" (1900). Died in 1912.