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.mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Jack_Whitney" title="Jack Whitney">Jack Whitney</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the ambassador, philanthropist and investor. For the venture capital firm he founded, see <a href="/wiki/J.H._Whitney_%26_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="J.H. Whitney & Company">J.H. Whitney & Company</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">John Hay Whitney</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:JohnHayWhitney.webp" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/JohnHayWhitney.webp/220px-JohnHayWhitney.webp.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/JohnHayWhitney.webp/273px-JohnHayWhitney.webp.png 1.5x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="365" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom">United States Ambassador to <span class="nowrap">the United Kingdom</span></a> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />February 11, 1957 – January 14, 1961</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Winthrop_W._Aldrich" title="Winthrop W. Aldrich">Winthrop W. Aldrich</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_K._E._Bruce" title="David K. E. Bruce">David K. E. Bruce</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">August 17, 1904<br /><a href="/wiki/Ellsworth,_Maine" title="Ellsworth, Maine">Ellsworth, Maine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 8, 1982 (aged 77)<br /><a href="/wiki/Manhasset,_New_York" title="Manhasset, New York">Manhasset, New York</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_party_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Liz_Whitney_Tippett" title="Liz Whitney Tippett">Mary Elizabeth Altemus</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1930; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1940)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Betsey_Cushing_Roosevelt_Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney">Betsey Cushing Roosevelt</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1942)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Kate Roosevelt Whitney<br /><a href="/wiki/Sara_Wilford" title="Sara Wilford">Sara D. Roosevelt Whitney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Payne_Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="Payne Whitney">Payne Whitney</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Helen_Hay_Whitney" title="Helen Hay Whitney">Helen Julia Hay</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>See</i> <a href="/wiki/Whitney_family" title="Whitney family">Whitney family</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Groton_School" title="Groton School">Groton School</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Merit" title="Legion of Merit">Legion of Merit</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Medal_(Royal_Society_of_Arts)" title="Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts)">Benjamin Franklin Medal</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Hay Whitney</b> (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was an American <a href="/wiki/Venture_capital" title="Venture capital">venture capitalist</a>, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer and diplomat who served as <a href="/wiki/U.S._Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom">U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom</a>, publisher of the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a></i>, and president of the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a>. </p><p>Born in 1904 to <a href="/wiki/William_Payne_Whitney" title="William Payne Whitney">Payne Whitney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hay_Whitney" title="Helen Hay Whitney">Helen Hay Whitney</a>, Whitney was a member of the wealthy and prominent <a href="/wiki/Whitney_family" title="Whitney family">Whitney family</a>, longstanding fixtures of New York City and New England society. After attending <a href="/wiki/Groton_School" title="Groton School">Groton School</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a>, where he was an <a href="/wiki/Rowing" title="Rowing">oarsman</a>, he inherited a large fortune from his father, making him one of the wealthiest people in the United States. In 1929, he participated in a hostile takeover of <a href="/wiki/Lee,_Higginson_%26_Co." title="Lee, Higginson & Co.">Lee, Higginson & Co.</a> with <a href="/wiki/Langbourne_Williams" title="Langbourne Williams">Langbourne Willliams</a>, rising to the position of chairman of the board at just 29 years old. In 1946, after serving in the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services">Office of Strategic Services</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, he founded <a href="/wiki/J._H._Whitney_%26_Company" title="J. H. Whitney & Company">J. H. Whitney & Company</a>, the oldest venture capital firm in the United States and the origin of the term "venture capital". By the 1970s, he was one of the wealthiest men in the world. </p><p>Whitney was an influential figure in New York City politics and the politics of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>. As a moderate internationalist, Whitney was an early supporter of <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>'s presidential campaigns, and in 1957, Eisenhower appointed him <a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom">United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom</a>, a position which had been held by his grandfather and namesake, <a href="/wiki/John_Hay" title="John Hay">John Hay</a>. While ambassador, Whitney improved relations between the two countries in the wake of the Suez Crisis and purchased the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a>.</i> Through the tribune, he was influential in the election of <a href="/wiki/John_Lindsay" title="John Lindsay">John Lindsay</a> as mayor of New York City in 1965. </p><p>Whitney was a skilled <a href="/wiki/Polo" title="Polo">polo</a> player and raised <a href="/wiki/Thoroughbred" title="Thoroughbred">thoroughbred</a> racing horses, which won him the <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Gold_Cup" title="Cheltenham Gold Cup">Cheltenham Gold Cup</a> in 1929 and 1930 and were frequent entrants in the Kentucky Derby. He was a patron of the arts, financing several Broadway productions and films, including two Academy Award for Best Picture, <i><a href="/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)" title="Gone with the Wind (film)">Gone with the Wind</a></i> (1939) and <a href="/wiki/Rebecca_(1940_film)" title="Rebecca (1940 film)"><i>Rebecca</i></a> (1940)<i>.</i> He was an early supporter of <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a>, his longtime friend, and helped secure Astaire his first major film contract with <a href="/wiki/RKO_Pictures" title="RKO Pictures">RKO Pictures</a>. His large art collection included famous works by <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Pierre-Auguste Renoir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Claude_Monet" title="Claude Monet">Claude Monet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" title="Édouard Manet">Édouard Manet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hopper" title="Edward Hopper">Edward Hopper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_McNeill_Whistler" title="James McNeill Whistler">James McNeill Whistler</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" title="Paul Cézanne">Paul Cézanne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Gauguin" title="Paul Gauguin">Paul Gauguin</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent Van Gogh</a>. Works from his collection have been exhibited at the <a href="/wiki/Tate" title="Tate">Tate Gallery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Art_Gallery" title="Yale University Art Gallery">Yale University Art Gallery</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg/260px-John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg/390px-John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg/520px-John-Hay-Whitney-1910.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1240" data-file-height="860" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Helen_Hay_Whitney" title="Helen Hay Whitney">Helen Hay Whitney</a> and her six-year-old son, John Hay Whitney (October 12, 1910)</figcaption></figure> <p>Whitney was born on August 17, 1904, in <a href="/wiki/Ellsworth,_Maine" title="Ellsworth, Maine">Ellsworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>, Whitney was a descendant of John Whitney, a <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritan</a> who settled in <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> in 1635, as well as of <a href="/wiki/William_Bradford_(1590%E2%80%931657)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Bradford (1590–1657)">William Bradford</a>, who came over on the <i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i>. His father was <a href="/wiki/Payne_Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="Payne Whitney">Payne Whitney</a>, and his grandfathers were <a href="/wiki/William_C._Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="William C. Whitney">William C. Whitney</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Hay" title="John Hay">John Hay</a>, both <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States" title="Cabinet of the United States">presidential cabinet</a> members. His mother was <a href="/wiki/Helen_Hay_Whitney" title="Helen Hay Whitney">Helen Hay Whitney</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Whitneys' family mansion, <a href="/wiki/Payne_Whitney_House" title="Payne Whitney House">Payne Whitney House</a> on New York's <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue" title="Fifth Avenue">Fifth Avenue</a>, was around the corner from <a href="/wiki/James_B._Duke_House" title="James B. Duke House">James B. Duke House</a>, home of the founder of the <a href="/wiki/American_Tobacco_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="American Tobacco Co.">American Tobacco Co.</a>, father of <a href="/wiki/Doris_Duke" title="Doris Duke">Doris Duke</a>. Whitney's uncle, <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Payne" title="Oliver Hazard Payne">Oliver Hazard Payne</a>, a business partner of <a href="/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller">John D. Rockefeller</a>, arranged the funding for Duke to buy out his competitors. </p><p>Jock Whitney attended <a href="/wiki/Groton_School" title="Groton School">Groton School</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a>. He joined <a href="/wiki/Delta_Kappa_Epsilon" title="Delta Kappa Epsilon">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a> fraternity (Phi chapter), as his father had. Whitney, his father, grandfather, and great-uncle were oarsmen at Yale, and his father was captain of the crew in 1898. He was a member of <a href="/wiki/Scroll_and_Key" title="Scroll and Key">Scroll and Key</a>. While at Yale, he inspired the coining of the term "<a href="/wiki/Crew_cut" title="Crew cut">crew cut</a>" for the haircut favored by the rowing crew which still bears the name.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduating in 1926, Whitney went to <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>, but the death of his father on May 25, 1927 necessitated his returning home. He inherited a trust fund of $20 million (approximately $343.9 million in 2023 dollars), and later inherited four times that amount from his mother. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_career">Business career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Business career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/J.H._Whitney_%26_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="J.H. Whitney & Company">J.H. Whitney & Company</a></div> <p>In 1929, Whitney, despite his vast wealth, was a clerk at the firm of <a href="/wiki/Lee,_Higginson_%26_Co" class="mw-redirect" title="Lee, Higginson & Co">Lee, Higginson & Co</a> where, through his boss, J.T. Claiborne, Jr., he met former Lee, Higginson clerk <a href="/wiki/Langbourne_Meade_Williams,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Langbourne Meade Williams, Jr.">Langbourne Meade Williams, Jr.</a>, who had come to Claiborne for help in his efforts to gain control of <a href="/wiki/Freeport-McMoRan" title="Freeport-McMoRan">Freeport Texas Co.</a> Williams was a scion of a founding investment firm in the <a href="/wiki/Sulfur" title="Sulfur">sulfur</a> mining company. In 1929, the year after Whitney became one of the wealthiest men in America, through inheritance, Williams enlisted the help of Whitney's boss, who then enlisted Whitney's financial participation, in his efforts to oust founder and Chairman Eric P. Swenson, casting Whitney in the role of <a href="/wiki/Corporate_raider" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate raider">corporate raider</a> before the term existed. Whitney was soon Freeport's biggest shareholder, enabling Williams to replace the chairman and his management team. Claiborne was made a vice-president; Williams became Freeport's president in 1933, and Whitney was appointed chairman of the board.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1946, Whitney founded <a href="/wiki/J.H._Whitney_%26_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="J.H. Whitney & Company">J.H. Whitney & Company</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S.,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with <a href="/wiki/Benno_C._Schmidt,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Benno C. Schmidt, Sr.">Benno C. Schmidt, Sr.</a>—who coined the term "venture capital"—with J. T. Claiborne as a partner. Whitney put up $10 million to finance entrepreneurs with business plans who were unwelcome at banks. Companies Whitney invested in included <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_A._Spencer" title="Kenneth A. Spencer">Spencer Chemical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minute_Maid" title="Minute Maid">Minute Maid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1958, while he was still ambassador to the United Kingdom, his company Whitney Communications Corp. bought the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Herald_Tribune" title="New York Herald Tribune">New York Herald Tribune</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was its publisher from 1961 to its closure in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was chairman of the <a href="/wiki/International_Herald_Tribune" title="International Herald Tribune">International Herald Tribune</a> from 1966 until his death.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whitney Communications also owned and operated other newspapers, magazines and broadcasting stations.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whitney's television stations were sold to <a href="/wiki/Dun_%26_Bradstreet" title="Dun & Bradstreet">Dun & Bradstreet</a> in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theatre_and_motion_pictures">Theatre and motion pictures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Theatre and motion pictures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Whitney invested in several <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> shows, including <a href="/wiki/Peter_Arno" title="Peter Arno">Peter Arno</a>'s 1931 revue <i>Here Goes the Bride</i>, a failure that cost him $100,000, but was more successful as one of the backers of <i><a href="/wiki/Life_with_Father" title="Life with Father">Life with Father</a></i>. </p><p>An October 1934 <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a></i> article on the <a href="/wiki/Technicolor_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Technicolor Corporation">Technicolor Corporation</a> noted Whitney's interest in pictures. He had met Technicolor head <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Kalmus" title="Herbert Kalmus">Herbert Kalmus</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Race_Course" title="Saratoga Race Course">Saratoga Race Course</a>. In 1932, Technicolor achieved a breakthrough with its three-strip process. <a href="/wiki/Merian_C._Cooper" title="Merian C. Cooper">Merian C. Cooper</a> of <a href="/wiki/RKO_Radio_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO Radio Pictures">RKO Radio Pictures</a> approached Whitney with the idea of investing in Technicolor. They joined forces and founded <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Pictures" title="Pioneer Pictures">Pioneer Pictures</a> in 1933,<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with a distribution deal with RKO to distribute Pioneer's films. Whitney and his cousin <a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_Whitney" title="Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney">Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney</a> bought a 15% stake in Technicolor.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whitney was also the major investor in <a href="/wiki/David_O._Selznick" title="David O. Selznick">David O. Selznick</a>'s production company <a href="/wiki/Selznick_International_Pictures" title="Selznick International Pictures">Selznick International Pictures</a>, putting up $870,000 and serving as chairman of the board. He put up half the money to option <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell" title="Margaret Mitchell">Margaret Mitchell</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(novel)" title="Gone with the Wind (novel)">Gone with the Wind</a></i> for the <a href="/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)" title="Gone with the Wind (film)">Selznick film version</a>, in which he then invested, and later in <i><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_(1940_film)" title="Rebecca (1940 film)">Rebecca</a></i> (1940).<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_career">Military career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Whitney served in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces" title="United States Army Air Forces">United States Army Air Forces</a> as an <a href="/wiki/Military_intelligence" title="Military intelligence">intelligence</a> officer during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services">Office of Strategic Services</a>. This is where he met his good friend and former leader of the CIA, Allen Dulles. He was taken prisoner by the Germans in southern France,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but escaped when the train transporting him to a <a href="/wiki/POW_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="POW camp">POW camp</a> came under <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied</a> fire.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Thoroughbred_horse_racing">Thoroughbred horse racing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Thoroughbred horse racing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jock-Whitney-TIME-1933.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Jock-Whitney-TIME-1933.jpg/260px-Jock-Whitney-TIME-1933.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="343" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Jock-Whitney-TIME-1933.jpg/390px-Jock-Whitney-TIME-1933.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Jock-Whitney-TIME-1933.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="527" /></a><figcaption>Jock Whitney on the cover of <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> (March 27, 1933)</figcaption></figure> <p>Whitney inherited his family's love of horses, a predilection he shared with his sister, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Whitney_Payson" title="Joan Whitney Payson">Joan Whitney Payson</a>. Jock and his sister ran <a href="/wiki/Greentree_Stables" class="mw-redirect" title="Greentree Stables">Greentree Stables</a> in the U.S., owned by their mother. In 1928, he became the youngest member ever elected to <a href="/wiki/The_Jockey_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="The Jockey Club">The Jockey Club</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-horsehonor_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-horsehonor-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whitney and his first wife "Liz" raced horses both in the United States and in Europe. He owned <a href="/wiki/Easter_Hero" title="Easter Hero">Easter Hero</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Jack_Anthony_(jockey)" title="Jack Anthony (jockey)">Jack Anthony</a> trained horse who was the first to win the <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Gold_Cup" title="Cheltenham Gold Cup">Cheltenham Gold Cup</a> twice in succession, in 1929 under the mount of <a href="/wiki/Dick_Rees" title="Dick Rees">Dick Rees</a> and again in 1930, when ridden by <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Cullinan" title="Tommy Cullinan">Tommy Cullinan</a>. In the 1929 <a href="/wiki/Grand_National" title="Grand National">Grand National</a>, his horse twisted a plate and was beaten by a nose at the finish. Although Whitney entered the Grand National annually, he never again came close to winning. </p><p>The Whitneys entered four horses in the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Derby" title="Kentucky Derby">Kentucky Derby</a> in the 1930s, "Stepenfetchit," which finished 3rd in 1932, "Overtime," which finished 5th in 1933, "Singing Wood," which finished 8th in 1934, and "Heather Broom," which finished 3rd in 1939. </p><p>Jock Whitney was also an outstanding <a href="/wiki/Polo" title="Polo">polo</a> player, with a four-goal handicap, and it was as a sportsman that he made the cover of the March 27, 1933, issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine. </p><p>In 2015, Whitney was posthumously inducted to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame as Pillar of the Turf.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_life">Political life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Political life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Whitney was the major backer of <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Young_Republican_Club" title="New York Young Republican Club">New York Young Republican Club</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eisenhower appointed him <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom">United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a post held sixty years earlier by Whitney's grandfather <a href="/wiki/John_Hay" title="John Hay">John Hay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whitney played a major role in improving Anglo-American relations, which had been severely strained during the 1956 <a href="/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a>, when Eisenhower demanded that the British, French and <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli Army">Israelis</a> terminate their invasion of <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1930, Whitney purchased the <a href="/wiki/Llangollen_Farm" title="Llangollen Farm">Llangollen estate</a> as a bridal gift for his fiancée, the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> socialite <a href="/wiki/Liz_Whitney_Tippett" title="Liz Whitney Tippett">Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Altemus</a>. It was a 2,200-acre (890 ha) historic <a href="/wiki/Equestrianism" title="Equestrianism">equestrian</a> farm just outside <a href="/wiki/Middleburg,_Virginia" title="Middleburg, Virginia">Middleburg, Virginia</a>. They were married on September 23, 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-RenoDivorce_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RenoDivorce-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although married to Altemus, Whitney was romantically linked to <a href="/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" title="Tallulah Bankhead">Tallulah Bankhead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Bennett" title="Joan Bennett">Joan Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paulette_Goddard" title="Paulette Goddard">Paulette Goddard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a>. <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carole_Lombard" title="Carole Lombard">Carole Lombard</a> met at one of Whitney's parties. In the early 1930s, Jock Whitney began an affair with Nina Gore Vidal; simultaneously, his wife had an affair with Nina Vidal's husband <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Luther_Vidal" title="Eugene Luther Vidal">Eugene Vidal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple divorced in 1940,<sup id="cite_ref-RenoDivorce_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RenoDivorce-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Liz Whitney remained at Llangollen for the rest of her life, becoming an internationally renowned horse breeder and a member of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association Hall of Fame. </p><p>On March 1, 1942, he married <a href="/wiki/Betsey_Cushing_Roosevelt_Whitney" class="mw-redirect" title="Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney">Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney</a>, ex-wife of <a href="/wiki/James_Roosevelt" title="James Roosevelt">James Roosevelt</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-RooseveltWedding_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RooseveltWedding-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and adopted her two daughters:<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Kate Roosevelt Whitney</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sara_Wilford" title="Sara Wilford">Sara Roosevelt Whitney</a> (born March 13, 1932)</li></ul> <p>Whitney met <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> while the former was a student at <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> and they became lifelong friends, sharing a passion for horse racing. Whitney became a major investor in two of Astaire's <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> stage vehicles, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Band_Wagon_(musical)" title="The Band Wagon (musical)">The Band Wagon</a></i> (1930) and <i><a href="/wiki/Gay_Divorce" title="Gay Divorce">Gay Divorce</a></i> (1932), and played a crucial role in securing for Astaire a contract with <a href="/wiki/RKO_Pictures" title="RKO Pictures">RKO Pictures</a> in 1933, using his contacts with <a href="/wiki/Merian_C._Cooper" title="Merian C. Cooper">Merian C. Cooper</a>; both men were board members of <a href="/wiki/Pan_American_Airways" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan American Airways">Pan American Airways</a> whose planes were prominently featured in Astaire's breakthrough film with <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers">Ginger Rogers</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/Flying_Down_to_Rio" title="Flying Down to Rio">Flying Down to Rio</a></i> (1933).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1970s, Whitney was listed as one of the ten wealthiest men in the world. The residences at his disposal over the years included an estate on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>; an <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Beach,_New_York" title="Atlantic Beach, New York">Atlantic Beach, NY</a> beach house;<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(Georgia)" title="Greenwood Plantation (Georgia)">Greenwood Plantation</a> in Georgia; a townhouse and an elegant apartment in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>; a large summer house on <a href="/wiki/Fishers_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Fishers Island">Fishers Island</a>, near <a href="/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut" title="New London, Connecticut">New London, Connecticut</a>; a 12-room house in <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Springs" class="mw-redirect" title="Saratoga Springs">Saratoga Springs</a>, which the Whitneys used when they attended horse races; a golfing cottage in <a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia" title="Augusta, Georgia">Augusta, Georgia</a>, where he was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Augusta_National_Golf_Club" title="Augusta National Golf Club">Augusta National Golf Club</a>; and a spacious house <a href="/wiki/Cherry_Hill,_Wentworth_Estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherry Hill, Wentworth Estate">Cherry Hill</a> in Virginia Water, <a href="/wiki/Surrey,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Surrey, England">Surrey, England</a>, near the <a href="/wiki/Ascot_Racecourse" title="Ascot Racecourse">Ascot Racecourse</a>. Mr. Whitney also owned an estate in <a href="/wiki/Aiken,_South_Carolina" title="Aiken, South Carolina">Aiken, South Carolina</a>, which he considered his "retirement" home and where he hoped to spend his final days.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whitney died on February 8, 1982, at North Shore Hospital, Manhasset, Long Island, after a long illness.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Philanthropy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Payne Whitney made substantial gifts to Yale, to the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Presbyterian_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Presbyterian Hospital">New York Presbyterian Hospital</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Library" title="New York Public Library">New York Public Library</a>. After his father's death, the family built the <a href="/wiki/Payne_Whitney_Gymnasium" title="Payne Whitney Gymnasium">Payne Whitney Gymnasium</a> at Yale in his honor. The family also financed <a href="/wiki/Payne_Whitney_Psychiatric_Clinic" title="Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic">Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic</a> at <a href="/wiki/New_York_Presbyterian_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Presbyterian Hospital">New York Presbyterian Hospital</a> in 1932. </p><p>Whitney created the John Hay Whitney Foundation for educational projects in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The foundation provided fellowships to the racially and culturally deprived. He became a major contributor to Yale University, where he served as a Fellow of the corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1951, he and his wife Betsey Cushing Whitney donated land from their "<a href="/wiki/Greentree" title="Greentree">Greentree</a>" estate in <a href="/wiki/Manhasset,_New_York" title="Manhasset, New York">Manhasset, New York</a> toward the building of North Shore Hospital. Currently called <a href="/wiki/North_Shore_University_Hospital" title="North Shore University Hospital">North Shore University Hospital</a>, it is the flagship hospital of the 3rd largest not-for-profit secular healthcare system in the United States, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1953, Whitney received <a href="/wiki/The_Hundred_Year_Association_of_New_York" title="The Hundred Year Association of New York">The Hundred Year Association of New York</a>'s Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." </p><p>In the late 1960s/early 1970's John Hay Whitney donated two small parcels of land in Manhasset to the County of Nassau and to the Manhasset-Lakeville Volunteer Fire Department. The Nassau County parcel was the new home for the 6th Police Precinct of the Nassau County Police, located at the S/E intersection of Community Drive and East Community Drive. Just east of the 6th pct, at 2 E Community Dr., the M-LFD parcel was the new home of Fire Company #2 of the M-LFD, where John Hay Whitney was voted in by the membership of Company number two as an Honorary Member of the company. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Museum_of_Modern_Art">Museum of Modern Art</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Museum of Modern Art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1930 Whitney was elected to the board of trustees of the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a> in New York City, and named President of the MoMA Film Library in 1935. In 1941 he succeeded <a href="/wiki/Nelson_A._Rockefeller" class="mw-redirect" title="Nelson A. Rockefeller">Nelson A. Rockefeller</a> as President of MoMA.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1946 he succeeded Stephen C. Clark as chairman of the board of trustees<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Art_collection">Art collection</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Art collection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Whitney moved to England as United States ambassador, he took a number of his favourite artworks with him to enjoy during his posting. Before his return to the US, he agreed for the first time to loan part of his collection for the public to see. He provided the Tate Gallery with 56 paintings from the collection in England and specially brought in a further 11 paintings from the US. The exhibition, the John Hay Whitney Collection, ran from 16 December 1960 to 29 January 1961 <sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1983 the National Gallery of Art, Washington held an exhibition of the John Hay Whitney Collection with paintings loaned by Whitney's wife, The Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Art Gallery <sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the paintings in his collection, Jock Whitney's prized possession was the <i><a href="/wiki/Bal_au_moulin_de_la_Galette,_Montmartre" class="mw-redirect" title="Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre">Bal au moulin de la Galette</a></i> painted in 1876 by the French artist <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Pierre-Auguste Renoir</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1990, his widow put the painting up for auction with <a href="/wiki/Sotheby%27s" title="Sotheby's">Sotheby's</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> and it sold for US$78 million to <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> businessman <a href="/wiki/Ryoei_Saito" title="Ryoei Saito">Ryoei Saito</a>. </p><p>Whitney's widow donated a number of paintings from his collection to the Greentree Foundation. One of those paintings by <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gar%C3%A7on_%C3%A0_la_pipe" title="Garçon à la pipe">Garçon à la pipe</a> was auctioned by Sotheby's in May 2004 for $104 million <sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The following works have been publicly exhibited or sold from the former collection of John Hay Whitney. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Marquet" title="Albert Marquet">Albert Marquet</a>, The Beach at Trouville</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_de_Dreux" title="Alfred de Dreux">Alfred de Dreux</a>, Cheval Blanc Effraye Par L'orage</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_de_Dreux" title="Alfred de Dreux">Alfred de Dreux</a>, Moorish Groom</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain" title="André Derain">André Derain</a>, Charing Cross Bridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain" title="André Derain">André Derain</a>, Collioure Landscape</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balthus" title="Balthus">Balthus</a> (Balthasar Klossowski): Le Salon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bazille" class="mw-redirect" title="Bazille">Bazille</a>, Jean-Frédéric: Pots De Fleurs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Perlin" title="Bernard Perlin">Bernard Perlin</a>, Vacant Lots</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berthe_Morisot" title="Berthe Morisot">Berthe Morisot</a>, Hide and Seek (Cache-Cache)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Pissarro" title="Camille Pissarro">Camille Pissarro</a>, Jeanne with Flowers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_Pissarro" title="Camille Pissarro">Camille Pissarro</a>, Pommes En Fleurs, Temps Gris, Eragny</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Monet" title="Claude Monet">Claude Monet</a>, Bateaux Sur Le Galet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Monet" title="Claude Monet">Claude Monet</a>, Camille on the Beach</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, Avant la Course</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, Cheval de Selle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, Chevaux de Course</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, La Promenade Des Chevaux</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, Le faux Depart</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, Le faux Depart (drawing)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Degas" title="Edgar Degas">Edgar Degas</a>, Self Portrait</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" title="Édouard Manet">Édouard Manet</a>, Les Courses au Bois de Bologne</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet" title="Édouard Manet">Édouard Manet</a>, Woman in a Decollete Gown</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard" title="Édouard Vuillard">Édouard Vuillard</a>, An Artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard" title="Édouard Vuillard">Édouard Vuillard</a>, Demoiselle en Rouge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard" title="Édouard Vuillard">Édouard Vuillard</a>, Embroiders near a Window (Tapestry)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard" title="Édouard Vuillard">Édouard Vuillard</a>, La Mère De Vuillard En Profil</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard" title="Édouard Vuillard">Édouard Vuillard</a>, Portrait of the Artist's Mother</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hopper" title="Edward Hopper">Edward Hopper</a>, Cape Cod Evening</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Boudin" title="Eugène Boudin">Eugène Boudin</a>, Hollyhocks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Boudin" title="Eugène Boudin">Eugène Boudin</a>, Roses</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Bellows" title="George Bellows">George Bellows</a>, Club Night</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Bellows" title="George Bellows">George Bellows</a>, Crowd at Polo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Bellows" title="George Bellows">George Bellows</a>, Introducing John L. Sullivan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a>, Bouteiile et Verre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a>, Les Cabines</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque">Georges Braque</a>, The Port of La Ciotat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Seurat" title="Georges Seurat">Georges Seurat</a>, Grandcamp, Evening</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Seurat" title="Georges Seurat">Georges Seurat</a>, The Island of La Grande Jatte</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustave_Courbet" title="Gustave Courbet">Gustave Courbet</a>, The Hound</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec" title="Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec">Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec</a>, Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilperic"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Fantin-Latour" title="Henri Fantin-Latour">Henri Fantin-Latour</a>, Roses</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Fantin-Latour" title="Henri Fantin-Latour">Henri Fantin-Latour</a>, Vase of Flowers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a>, Luxe, Calme et Volupte</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a>, Nature Morte au Purro II</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse">Henri Matisse</a>, Open Window, Collioure</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Rousseau" title="Henri Rousseau">Henri Rousseau</a>, L'Heureux Quatuor (the Happy Quartet)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Rousseau" title="Henri Rousseau">Henri Rousseau</a>, Tropical Forest with Monkeys</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri-Edmond_Cross" title="Henri-Edmond Cross">Henri-Edmond Cross</a>, Coast near Antibes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri-Edmond_Cross" title="Henri-Edmond Cross">Henri-Edmond Cross</a>, The Grape Harvest</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier" title="Honoré Daumier">Honoré Daumier</a>, Joueurs Des Cartes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_McNeill_Whistler" title="James McNeill Whistler">James McNeill Whistler</a>, Wapping on Thames</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot" title="Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot">Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot</a>, Chaumieres Et Moulins Au Bord D'un Torrent (Morvan Ou Auvergne)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Sim%C3%A9on_Chardin" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin">Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin</a>, Still Life</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Constable" title="John Constable">John Constable</a>, View of the back of a terrace of houses at Hampstead, with an elder tree <sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a>, Robert Louis Stevenson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent" title="John Singer Sargent">John Singer Sargent</a>, Venetian Courtyard</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kees_van_Dongen" title="Kees van Dongen">Kees van Dongen</a>, Saida</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_de_Vlaminck" title="Maurice de Vlaminck">Maurice de Vlaminck</a>, Tugboat on the Seine, Chatou</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Utrillo" title="Maurice Utrillo">Maurice Utrillo</a>, The Rue des Abbesses, Montmartre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odilon_Redon" title="Odilon Redon">Odilon Redon</a>, Fleurs Dans Un Vase Vert</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Ace of Clubs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gar%C3%A7on_%C3%A0_la_pipe" title="Garçon à la pipe">Garçon à la pipe</a> Le jeune Apprenti</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Head of a Sleeping Woman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Homme assis (seated man)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Plant de Tomate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Self Portrait</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Still Life (Le Journal)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Still Life with a Bottle of Maraschino</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Still Life with Fruit and Glass</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, Still Life with vase, Gourd and Fruit</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" title="Paul Cézanne">Paul Cézanne</a>, Route Tournante a Montgeroult</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne" title="Paul Cézanne">Paul Cézanne</a>, Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Gauguin" title="Paul Gauguin">Paul Gauguin</a>, Parau-Parau</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Signac" title="Paul Signac">Paul Signac</a>, Collioure Le Mohamed-El-Sadok</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Signac" title="Paul Signac">Paul Signac</a>, Fishing Boats in the Sunset</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Signac" title="Paul Signac">Paul Signac</a>, The Yawl</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Pierre-Auguste Renoir</a>, La Foret de Marly</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Pierre-Auguste Renoir</a>, La Yole</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Pierre-Auguste Renoir</a>, Liseuse</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir" title="Pierre-Auguste Renoir">Pierre-Auguste Renoir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bal_du_moulin_de_la_Galette" title="Bal du moulin de la Galette">Bal du moulin de la Galette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raoul_Dufy" title="Raoul Dufy">Raoul Dufy</a>, Beach at Saint-Adresse</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raoul_Dufy" title="Raoul Dufy">Raoul Dufy</a>, Fete a Sainte-Adresse</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raoul_Dufy" title="Raoul Dufy">Raoul Dufy</a>, Jockeys et Turfistes À Epsom</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raoul_Dufy" title="Raoul Dufy">Raoul Dufy</a>, Sailboats at Le Havre</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_de_La_Fresnaye" title="Roger de La Fresnaye">Roger de La Fresnaye</a>, Still Life, Coffee, Pot and Melon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufino_Tamayo" title="Rufino Tamayo">Rufino Tamayo</a>, Women</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Alfred_Munnings" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Alfred Munnings">Sir Alfred Munnings</a>, Before the Start</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Alfred_Munnings" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Alfred Munnings">Sir Alfred Munnings</a>, Leaving The Paddock At Epsom Downs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Alfred_Munnings" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Alfred Munnings">Sir Alfred Munnings</a>, The Red Prince Mare</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Alfred_Munnings" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Alfred Munnings">Sir Alfred Munnings</a>, The Winner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Lavery" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Lavery">Sir John Lavery</a>, Weighing in at Sandown Park</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9o_van_Rysselberghe" title="Théo van Rysselberghe">Théo van Rysselberghe</a>, Port Cette</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_G%C3%A9ricault" title="Théodore Géricault">Théodore Géricault</a>, Cheval de Napoleon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_G%C3%A9ricault" title="Théodore Géricault">Théodore Géricault</a>, Officier de Cavalerie à Cheval</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Rousseau" title="Théodore Rousseau">Théodore Rousseau</a>, The Isle of Capri</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Eakins" title="Thomas Eakins">Thomas Eakins</a>, Baby at Play</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Eakins" title="Thomas Eakins">Thomas Eakins</a>, The Oarsmen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a>, Les Oliviers, St Remy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a>, Self Portrait</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, The Good and Evil Angels Struggling For Possession of a Child</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winslow_Homer" title="Winslow Homer">Winslow Homer</a>, Woodshopper in the Adirondacks</li> <li>Fosburgh, Daisies</li></ul> <p>Sources: John Hay Whitney Collection (Catalogue), Tate Gallery, 1960, John Hay Whitney Collection (Catalogue), National Gallery of Art, 1983, Sotheby's Catalogue, auction 10 May 1999, Sotheby's Catalogue, auction 5 May 2004 </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anecdotes">Anecdotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Anecdotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Whitney gave Fred Astaire a pair of big-wheel roller skates as a present. A few years later roller skating was one of his most important dance numbers on film.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whitney and Jimmy Altemus provided the lyrics for a sing composed by Fred Astaire, "Tappin' the Time."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>President Dwight D. Eisenhower took pains to transmit to Ambassador Whitney in London, by telegram, the first round golf scores of the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club on 5 April 1957. <sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ambassador Whitney had a very demanding and exhausting schedule but was not fazed by it. After having been to three or four receptions one day, his wife was not surprised to find their chauffeur, groggy from his rounds, dozing on the back seat of their limousine and the Ambassador driving the car.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whitney: "I have just had a heart attack and am on a very strict diet. However if you will twist my arm a little, I will probably give in and we will consume a number of very large dry martinis" <sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>William S. Paley (the legendary founder of CBS), who was Whitney's brother in law, had a gentle rivalry with Whitney. Once while watching television with Whitney at Greentree, Paley wanted to change the channel. 'Where's your clicker?' Paley asked, figuring Jock would have a remote-control switch at his fingertips. Jock calmly pressed a buzzer, and his butler walked up to the TV set to make the switch.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The White House Is Nice, But It's No Greentree!</i> E. J. Kahn, Mr. Whitney's biographer, reported that one of his daughters, Kate, once took her own children on a tour of the White House. Mr. Kahn wrote, <i>After inspecting it, they pronounced it nice enough but hardly on a par with Greentree. [Greentree was the more prestigious of his Long Island residences']</i> <sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/24/archives/whitney-wins-franklin-medal.html">"Whitney Wins Franklin Medal"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 24 May 1963<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/jocklifetimes00kahn"><i>Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney</i></a>. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-14932-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-14932-8"><bdi>0-385-14932-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jock%3A+The+Life+and+Times+of+John+Hay+Whitney&rft.place=Garden+City%2C+NY&rft.pub=Doubleday+%26+Company%2C+Inc.&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=0-385-14932-8&rft.aulast=Kahn+Jr.&rft.aufirst=E.J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fjocklifetimes00kahn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Hay+Whitney" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hay_Whitney&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1533405/">John Hay Whitney</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060911171139/http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/johnhay.html">Philadelphia Inquirer Obituary 9 Feb 1982</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7524924">John Hay Whitney</a> at <a href="/wiki/Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mlfd.com">Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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