Jesse Whiteway
{{Short description|Newfoundland merchant and politician (1863–1940)}}
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| honorific-suffix = MHA
| image = Jesse Whiteway (1863–1940).png
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| constituency_AM1 = Bay de Verde
| alongside1 = John Crosbie
| assembly1 = Newfoundland House of
| term_start1 = {{start date|1908|11|02}}
| term_end1 = {{end date|1913|10|30}}
| predecessor1 = William C. Winsor
Charles H. Hutchings
| successor1 = Albert Hickman
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birthdate|1862|11|12}}
| birth_place = Muddy Hole, Newfoundland Colony
| death_date = {{death date and age|1940|05|18|1862|11|12}}
| death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland
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| spouse = {{marriage|Mary E. Strange|1889}}
| party = People's Party
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| children = 6
| residence =
| alma_mater = Wesleyan Academy
| occupation = Merchant
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Jesse Whiteway (November 12, 1862 – May 18, 1940) was a merchant and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Bay de Verde in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1908 to 1913 as a member of the People's Party.
Early life and business career
Whiteway was born in Muddy Hole (today Musgrave Harbour) on November 12, 1862, the son of Robert Whiteway and Ann Tuff. He was educated at the Wesleyan Academy in St. John's. Whiteway began work with a dry goods firm as a teenager and, in 1886, went into business in partnership with a brother. He married Mary E. Strange in 1889.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/2456 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |pages=563–64 |title=Whiteway, Jesse}}
Politics and later life
Whiteway was first elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1908 as a member of the recently established People's Party led by Edward Morris. After being re-elected once in 1909, he was defeated in 1913. Whiteway was named to the Legislative Council of Newfoundland in 1919, but he resigned later that same year to unsuccessfully run for the seat in Bay de Verde in the 1919 general election. Whiteway also served on the board of governors for the General Hospital.
He died on May 18, 1940 in St. John's.{{Cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-may-25-1940-4088623/ |title=North East West South |newspaper=Twillingate Sun |page=4 |date=1940-05-25 |access-date=2023-09-28 |via=NewspaperArchive}}
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Category:Newfoundland People's Party MHAs
Category:Members of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland
Category:Dominion of Newfoundland politicians
Category:20th-century members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly
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