Wallace H. White

Wallace H. White

Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (born August 6, 1877 in Lewiston , Maine , †  March 31, 1952 in Auburn , Maine) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Maine in both chambers of Congress .

Wallace White, whose grandfather William P. Frye also sat for Maine in Congress between 1871 and 1911, graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick in 1899 . He then worked as administrative officer ( Assistant Clerk ) for the Trade Committee of the Senate and served as secretary to his grandfather. He also studied law and began practicing after joining the Lewiston Bar.

In 1916, White was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Maine . He took up his mandate from March 4, 1917 and was re-elected several times before leaving the Chamber of Parliament on March 3, 1931 and moving to the Senate within Congress. Here, too, he was confirmed in office in 1936 and 1942. In addition, he was elected minority leader of the republican minority faction in 1944 ; when his party won a majority in the Senate after the 1949 congressional elections, the post of Majority Leader passed from Democrat Ernest McFarland to White. His influence in this function was, however, small; his main task was to maintain the balance between the two wing of the party, led by Robert Taft and Arthur H. Vandenberg at the time.

After he waived re-election, Wallace White resigned from the Senate on January 3, 1949. He died in Auburn three years later.

Web links

• Wallace H. White in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Wallace H. White in the database of Find a Grave (English)