sentences:  Whittlesey was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1835).He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Twenty-third Congress) before resuming the practice of law.Whittlesey served as the City Attorney of Rochester in 1838 and as vice chancellor of the eighth judicial district of New York in 1839–1847.