John O. Whitehouse
John Osborne Whitehouse was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
John O. Whitehouse was born in Rochester, New Hampshire on July 19, 1817. He received a common-school education and moved to New York City in 1835, where he worked as a clerk. In 1839, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he was engaged as a merchant and manufacturer of shoes. He moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1860 and continued the shoe manufacturing business.Whitehouse was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress. He resumed the shoe manufacturing business. He was also interested in banking and railroading. He was owner of the Daily News 1872–1880.