About Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Lived 1864 – 1945 (aged 80). Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was an American politician and lawyer.
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (December 10, 1864 – June 3, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1921 to 1923. His older brother was Stuyvesant Wainwright (father of Carroll Livingston Wainwright), and their paternal grandfather was the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Bishop of New York.
Wainwright graduated from Columbia College; from Columbia School of Political Science in 1884, and from Columbia Law School in 1886.
Fonrose Wainwright (1893–1983), who married Phillip King Condict (1880–1949).
He died on June 3, 1945, in Rye, New York. His funeral was held at Christ's Church, Rye, and he was buried at the Greenwood Union Cemetery.
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American politician (1864–1945)
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was born on 10 December 1864 in New York City.
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright died on 3 June 1945 in Rye.
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was a politician and lawyer.
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