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John Whitaker

John Whitaker

Born In: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

JOHN WHITAKER, NIXON AIDE, FORMER YARMOUTH AND LAKE ANNIS RESIDENT
John Whitaker, a Lake Annis and Yarmouth part-time resident has died at age 89 in Washington, DC. He served as aide to former U.S. President Richard Nixon on environmental, natural resources, and energy policy. He was later appointed by Nixon as Under Secretary of the US Department of Interior.
Born in Victoria BC, he had a deep and lifelong love for Yarmouth County. He first visited there as a boy in 1940 when he attended Camp Mooswa in Lake Annis, where he later built a summer cottage. After his retirement from government service, he lived in Yarmouth from 1979 to 1985 with his wife, Elizabeth Bradley Whitaker, and their three youngest sons, Stephen, William and James, who all attended Yarmouth High School. William later graduated from Acadia University in Wolfville, NS.
Whitaker, who had a Ph.D. in geology, worked as a consultant to Shell Canada Resources Ltd., and he wrote a monthly column for the Toronto-based Northen Miner, reporting on mineral, oil and gas exploration in Atlantic Canada. He was also a reporter for the Vanguard.
Whitaker served on the board of directors of the National Audubon Society, and the founding board of the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. In his retirement, he assisted the elderly and disabled at the Gift of Peace House run by the Missionaries of Charity in Washington, DC, and he was chairman of the board of Rebuilding Together, a non-profit organization in the US devoted to rehabilitating the homes of low-income elderly citizens at no charge.
His wife of 43 years, the former Mary Elizabeth Bradley, died in 2001. Survivors include his five sons, John Clifford of Cincinnati, OH, Robert Carroll of Philadelphia, PA, Stephen Bradley of San Luis Obispo, CA, William Burns of Kensington, MD, and James Ford of Pacific Palisades, CA, along with fourteen grandchildren, all of whom summer in Lake Annis.





 

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