Eli Whitney Debevoise was born in Manhattan on December 14, 1899 and named after his great-great grandfather, Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin.
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Notably, he was a founder of the International Commission of Jurists, one of the first global human rights organizations.
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Eli Whitney Debevoise II, commonly known as “Whitney Debevoise,” was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1953 and graduated from the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1970.