WHITMAN, Ezekiel, jurist, born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, 9 March. 1776; died there, 1 August, 1866. He lost his parents in early life and was brought up by his uncle, Reverend Levi Whitman, of Wellfleet, who opposed his desire to go to sea and induced him to prepare for Brown university, where he was graduated in 1795 after supporting himself during his course by teaching. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar of Plymouth county in 1799, and removed to the district of Maine, where he practised in Turner, and after 1807 in Portland, he was an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for congress in 1806, but was elected two years later, and served in 1809-'11. In the election of 1810 he and William Widgery had each 1,639 votes, and at a second trial the latter was successful. Mr. Whitman then devoted himself to his large practice and was a member of the executive council of Massachusetts in 1815-'16 and of the Constitutional convention of 1819. In 1817-'23 he was again in congress. On the admission of Maine to the Union he became a judge of its court of common pleas, serving from 1822 till 1841, and in 1841-'8 he was chief justice of the state. In 1852 he retired to his native place. Judge Whitman was one of the last of the '" old-school " lawyers in his state, he presided in court with much dignity, and his judicial opinions, which were reported by John Shepley in volumes xxi-xxix, of " Maine Reports," are characterized by simplicity and directness of application. In congress he at tacked Gem Andrew Jackson severely for his course in Florida, spoke earnestly against striking out the clause to prohibit slavery from the bill to admit Missouri to the Union, took an active part in discussions on the tariff, and in 1818 spoke in favor of a bankrupt law. He was the author of a pamphlet, " Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitman" (printed privately, Portland, 1832).