Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright

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. Early life Wainwright was born Manhattan, New York City, to John Howard Wainwright and Margaret Livingston (née Stuyvesant) Wainwright. His older brother was Stuyvesant Wainwright (father of Carroll Livingston Wainwright I), and their paternal grandfather was the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Bishop of New York. His maternal grandfather was Nicholas Stuyvesant, a son of Nicholas William Stuyvesant, grandson of the merchant Peter Stuyvesant, all direct descendants of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of New Amsterdam. U.S. Army General Jonathan M. Wainwright was his cousin. Wainwright graduated from Columbia College; from Columbia School of Political Science in 1884, and from Columbia Law School in 1886. While at Columbia, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall.