Whiting Griswold

{{short description|American politician}}

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| name =Whiting Griswold

| birth_date =November 12, 1814

| birth_place =Buckland, Massachusetts

| death_date = October 28, 1874 (aged 59)

| death_place = Greenfield, Massachusetts

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| nationality =American

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| party =Democrat, Free Soil

| profession =Attorney

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| spouse = Fannie L. Clark

| children = Freeman Clark Griswold

| office = Member of the
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853

| term_start =1853

| term_end =1853

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| office2 = Member of the
Massachusetts Senate

| term_start2 =1851

| term_end2 =1852

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| office3 =Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives

| term_start3 =1848

| term_end3 =1850

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|alma_mater=Amherst College, 1838

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Whiting Griswold (November 12, 1814 – October 28, 1874) was an American abolitionist, lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in the Massachusetts Senate.{{Citation |last =Ulman|first =H. Charles| title =Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States: Containing Federal Officers ... Foreign Ministers and Consuls; State, County, and City Officials; Judiciary ... with a ... Digest of the Laws of the Several States, Touching ... Commercial Law; with Laws Relating to the Descent of Property| page =578 | publisher =A.S. Barnes & Co.| location = New York, New York | date =1872}} In 1864 Griswold was a presidential elector from Massachusetts for Abraham Lincoln.