WHEELOCK WHITNEY LOST TO GENE MCCARTHY SENATE 1964 MINNESOTA PINBACK BUTTON

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THIS AUCTION
: OFFERING ANOTHER GREAT UPPER MIDWEST VINTAGE POLITICAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN PINBACK BUTTON FOR WHEELOCK WHITNEY, JR., REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR U. S. SENATE IN MINNESOTA IN 1964, WHO LOST TO SEN. EUGENE MCCARTHY, DEMOCRAT
Wheelock Whitney Jr.
Born      July 30, 1926
St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.
Died       May 20, 2016 (aged 89)
Independence, Minnesota, U.S.
Education           Phillips Academy
Alma mater         Yale University
Occupation         Investment banker, educator, sports team owner/executive, politician
Political party     Republican
Board member of             Johnson Institute
Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Vikings
Spouse(s)
Irene Hixon
(m. 1948; died 1986)
Penny Lewis
(m. 1990; div. 1994)
Kathleen A. Blatz (m. 2005)
Children                            Wheelock III, Pennell, Joseph, Benson
Parent(s)                           Wheelock Whitney &
Katharine Kimball
Honors
Minnesota Business Hall of Fame (2000)
Finance magazine's Investment Banker of the Year (1971)
Wheelock "Whee" Whitney Jr.
(July 30, 1926 – May 20, 2016) was an American businessman, educator, sports team executive and owner, philanthropist, and politician.
Early life and education
Whitney attended Phillips Andover and Yale University with George H.W. Bush.  He and Bush were both members of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Yale. Whitney was a successful investment banker from 1957 until 1972, when he left the industry to teach at the Carlson School of Business.
Whitney was the
1964 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Minnesota, losing to Eugene McCarthy,
and the
Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota in 1982, losing to Rudy Perpich
.
Sports executive
Whitney was involved with the Continental League, the third major baseball league, in 1959. He helped obtain the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball franchise for the state, and served on the team's board of directors from 1961 to 1985. Whitney was also part of the successful effort to obtain a National Hockey League franchise for the city of Bloomington, Minnesota. The team, the Minnesota North Stars, was founded in 1967 and played at the Met Center, which Whitney helped get built. He was also a part-owner and president of the Minnesota Vikings football team for a number of years.
Personal life
Whitney married Irene Hixon on August 21, 1948. They provided aid to Vernon Johnson, who pioneered the method of using an intervention to confront alcoholics and substance abusers so as to get them professional help for their addictions. They created the Johnson Institute after Johnson helped Irene Whitney through an intervention. Irene Whitney died of lung cancer in 1986. In 1990 Whitney married Penny Lewis, a professional horse trainer, from whom he was divorced in 1994. In 2005, he married Chief Justice Kathleen A. Blatz, of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Whitney died on May 20, 2016.
Horse racing
Whitney was involved with the sport of thoroughbred horse racing for many years. His best-known horse was Quicken Tree, a California runner in the 1960s whose wins included the Santa Anita Handicap and the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
SIZE: APPROX. 1" LITHO
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He
Leadeth
Me
In pastures green?
Not always; sometimes He
who
knoweth
best, in kindness
leadeth
me
In many ways where heavy shadows be.
Out of the sunshine warm and soft and bright
...
Out of the sunshine into the darkest night,
I oft would faint with sorrow and affright,
Only for this...I know He holds my hand;
so whether in the green or desert land
I trust although I may not understand.
And by still waters?
No, not always so;
Ofttimes
the heavy tempests round me blow,
And o'er my soul the waters and billows go.
But when the storms beat loudest and I cry
aloud for help, the Master
standeth
by
And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I."
Above the tempest wild I hear Him say,
Beyond this darkness lies a perfect day.
In every path of
thine
I lead the way.
So whether on the hilltops high and fair
I dwell, or in the sunless valleys where
The shadows
lie
...what matters?  He is there.
And more than this, where'er the pathway lead
He gives to me no helpless broken reed,
But His own hand, sufficient for my need.
So where He leads me, I can safely go,
And in the blest hereafter I shall know
Why in His wisdom, He hath led me so.
Author Unknown
"BE NOT OVERCOME BY EVIL BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD"  Romans 12:21