Whitney Tower
| Whitney Tower | |
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| Born | June 30, 1923 Roslyn, New York 
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| Died | February 11, 1999 Saratoga Springs, New York
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| Occupation | Horse racing media President of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame |
| Spouse(s) | Frances Cheston Train Joan Baker Spear Lucy Niblack Lyle |
| Children | Alexandra Tower Hornblower Whitney Tower Jr. Frances Tower-Thacher Harry Payne Tower Aurora Tower Alfred Tower |
| Parent(s) | Roderick Tower Flora Payne Whitney |
Whitney Tower (June 30, 1923 – February 11, 1999) was an American journalist reporting on Thoroughbred horse racing and a president of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
His father was oil broker Roderick Tower and his mother was Flora Payne Whitney, a child of the Vanderbilt-Whitney marriage. Whitney Tower's parents divorced and when he was four, his mother remarried to MacCulloch Miller. Tower graduated from St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, and Harvard University.
From 1948 to 1954, Tower worked as a sports reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer. He then joined the fledgling Sports Illustrated magazine where he served as horse racing editor for twenty-two years during which time he received the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's magazine writing award.
In 1976 Whitney Tower, along with E. Barry Ryan, founded Classic magazine, a publication dedicated to Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing as well as show jumping events. The magazine reported on horse racing matters not only from North America but from around the world as well and won Media Eclipse Awards in 1976-77. Following the magazine's closure, Tower joined the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, New York, serving as its president from 1982 to 1989 and for ten years was chairman of the Museum's Hall of Fame committee.
Whitney Tower and his first wife, Frances Cheston Train, had four children:
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