John Hay Whitney

Business Positions

The New York Herald Tribune Whig party newspaper

• Publisher ('57→'61)

Positions

Museum of Modern Art Premier US modern art museum in NYC

• Chair (?→'57)

Government Positions

Office of Strategic Services 1942 13 June President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a military order establishing the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and naming William J. Donovan as its Director.

• Position

Holdings

J.H. Whitney & Co., LLC One of the first U.S. private equity firms

• Founder ('46→?)

Memberships

The Business Council Business Advisory Council for the Department of Commerce since 1933

• active member (past)

Pilgrims of the United States Fosters Anglo-American relationships through cooperation of top banking and manufacturing institutions

• Member (past)

Family

Henry B Payne US Senator from Ohio, 1885-91

• great-grandfather

Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney Second-born of the three Cushing sisters, renowned in the 1930s and '40s for marriages into some of the nation's most prominent families.

• wife (past)

John Hay United States Secretary of State

• grandfather

Helen Hay

• mother

William Payne Whitney Director and vice president of Northern Finance Corporation 1911-1927

• father

Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Businessman, film producer, philanthropist, horse breeder, polo player

• first cousin

William Collins Whitney Secretary of the Navy 1885-1889

• grandfather

Schools

Yale University Private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut - founded in 1701

• Bachelor's Degree (?→'26)

Social

Bernard Marden financier, private investor, businessman, philanthropist,

• partner (past)