WHYTE, William Pinkney, senator, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 9 Aug'., 1824. His grandfather, Dr. John Campbell White, was a native of Ireland, who settled in Baltimore about 1800, and his mother was Isabella, daughter of William Pinkney. The son was educated by a private tutor and at Baltimore college. After serving about two years in the banking-house of Peabody, Riggs and Co., of which George Peabody had been the head, he studied law in Baltimore, and completed his course at Harvard, and in 1846 he was admitted to the bar of Maryland. He served in the legislature in the session of 1847, and in 1848 was appointed by John Y. Mason, secretary of the navy, as judge-advocate of a court-martial, of which Cap-rains Farragut, Buchanan, Barton, and others were members, at the United States naval academy, Annapolis. He was elected comptroller of the treasury of Maryland in 1853, and in 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at New York. When Reverdy Johnson became United States minister to Great Britain in 1868, Mr. Whyte was appointed to the United States senate by the governor of Maryland, to fill the vacancy that was thus created. He served until 3 March, 1869. In 1871 he was elected governor of Maryland, but in 1874 he resigned that office to enable the legislature to choose his successor, on his election to the United States senate. He took his seat in the senate, 4 March, 1875, and served until 3 March, 1881. In 1874 he received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Maryland. During that year he was t ho state, being appointed by the governor, in the trial of the boundary dispute between Maryland and Virginia, which was submitted to the arbitration of Judge Jeremiah S. Black, ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia, and Senator James B. Beck, of Kentucky. In the autumn of 1881 he was elected mayor of Baltimore without opposition, and he served till November, 1883. In 1887 he was chosen attorney-general of Maryland, which office he now holds.