Whitney Harris was born on 12 August 1912 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was married to Anna Galakatos and Jane Foster. He died on 21 April 2010 in Frontenac, Missouri, USA.
He was the last surviving member of the three-man US legal team that prosecuted high-ranking Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, and he later became a voice in the founding of the International Criminal Court.