John Henry Whallen
American political boss
Born on: May 1, 1850Died on: December 3, 1913
Aged: 63 years 216 days (763 months)
Birth Sign: Taurus
John Henry Whallen was a Democratic Party political boss in Louisville, Kentucky during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born in New Orleans, he moved with his family to Cincinnati, Ohio in his youth. As a boy during the Civil War he served the Confederate Army in Schoolfield's Battery as a "powder monkey", a boy who carried gunpowder.
He later served as a courier for General John Hunt Morgan.
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