Whitman was a member of the Senate during the 1897 and 1899 sessions representing the
14th District. He was also Superintendent of Schools of Appleton from 1882 to 1889, District Attorney of
Outagamie County, Wisconsin from 1889 to 1891 and City Attorney of Appleton from 1894 to 1897. Whitman was a
Republican. Whitman died September 23, 1910, and is interred in Hortonville. ==References==