John Osborne Whitehouse (19 July 1817-24 August 1881) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 13) from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1877, succeeding Joseph H. Tuthill and preceding John H. Ketcham.
Biography[]
John Osborne Whitehouse was born in Rochester, New Hampshire in 1817, and he moved to New York City in 1835 to work as a clerk before becoming a shoe manufacturer in Brooklyn in 1839 and then in Poughkeepsie in 1860. Whitehouse served in the US House of Representatives from 1873 to 1877 as a Democrat, and he owned the Daily News from 1872 to 1880; he died a year later.