George Herbert Whitney (August 19, 1863 – April 22, 1928) was an American pharmacist and politician from New York.

[1] In 1884, he passed the New York State pharmacy exam, the next year began managing his brother-in-law's drugstore in Mechanicville, and succeeded to the business in 1887.

[1] Whitney was a member of the New York State Assembly (Saratoga Co.) in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1912; and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Health in 1908, on Internal Affairs in 1909 and 1910, and on Ways and Means in 1912.

He was a member of the New York State Commission for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.

[5] Whitney died of a heart attack on April 22, 1928, in Mechanicville, Saratoga County, New York.