Thomas Alexander McWhinney (February 25, 1864 – November 25, 1933) was an American politician from New York.
[2] In May 1898, during the Spanish–American War, McWhinney enlisted in the 47th Regiment Infantry and was mustered in as quartermaster-sergeant of Company E. In November 1898, he was promoted to second lieutenant.
In 1917, Governor Whitman appointed him to a committee of seven to take charge of home defense and increase agricultural production.
[12] While in the Assembly, he passed bills that made Long Beach a city, created the Sunrise Highway and the Jamaica-Rockaway Turnpike,[13] and abolished a pernicious fee system.
A number of his bills created a lot of changes in the town, county, and Long Island governments.
[15] In 1926, Governor Al Smith appointed McWhinney to the Long Island State Park Commission, which he was a member of for the rest of his life.
He was a member of the Freemasons, the Elks, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Odd Fellows, the Foresters, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Inwood Country Club,[1] the Royal Arcanum, the Spanish War Veterans,[2] and the Improved Order of Red Men.