11 Facts About Harry Whittington

Harry Milner Whittington was an American lawyer, real estate investor, and political figure.

Harry Milner Whittington was born to Roy and Clara Whittington on March 3,1927, in Henderson, Texas.

Harry Whittington managed John Tower's successful 1961 run for the US Senate in Texas, the first successful Republican bid in the state since Reconstruction.

Harry Whittington was named presiding officer of the Texas Funeral Service Commission after a major shakeup of the agency in 1999.

Harry Whittington was appointed by then-Texas Governor George W Bush and re-appointed in 2002 by Governor Rick Perry.

In 1959, Harry Whittington challenged Austin's involvement in the controversial Federal Urban Renewal Program which enabled the government to seize the property of low-income residents.

In 2000, Harry Whittington began fighting a legal case involving the eminent domain seizure of a city block of property he owned in Austin.

Harry Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance and put into intensive care.

Harry Whittington told the paper that although many media outlets had described Cheney and him as "good friends", the pair had only met one another three times in 30 years, and had never been hunting before.

Harry Whittington married Mercedes Baker in 1950, and they had four daughters.

Harry Whittington died at his home in Austin on February 4,2023, at age 95, from complications of a fall he sustained earlier in the year.