page_title: Brand Whitlock
section_title: Springfield, Illinois
hierarchical_section_title: Brand Whitlock / Springfield, Illinois
caption_attribution_description: Mayors (left to right) Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Brand Whitlock of Toledo, Newton D. Baker of Cleveland.
context_page_description: Brand Whitlock was an American journalist, attorney, politician, Georgist, four-time mayor of Toledo, Ohio elected on the Independent ticket; ambassador to Belgium, and author of numerous articles and books, both novels and non-fiction.
context_section_description: His political writing attracted attention by Illinois politicians, and Whitlock was offered a job as Gov. John Peter Altgeld's personal secretary; instead he took a position with the Secretary of State. While in Springfield, he also studied the law under Senator J. M. Palmer; he was admitted to the bar in 1894, at the age of 25.
  Whitlock had married Susan Brainerd in 1892, but she died four months after their wedding.  In 1895 he married again, choosing her sister Nell Brainerd.
  In 1893, Whitlock prepared the pardon documents for the Haymarket Affair's convicted men: Fielden, Neebe, and Schwab. After Gov. Altgeld signed the pardons, Whitlock commented, "The storm will break now," to which the governor replied, "It was merely doing right." 
  Whitlock became very active in Illinois Democratic Party politics. In 1894, he was Chair of the Democratic Finance Committee and in charge of arrangements for the state convention.
caption: The Holy Trinity, as Ohio mayors (L-R) Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Brand Whitlock of Toledo, and Newton D. Baker of Cleveland were called following the mayoral elections of November 4, 1911.
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