Alexander White (politician, 1738)

Alexander White (* 1738 in Frederick County , Colony of Virginia ; †  October 9, 1804 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1793 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Alexander White grew up during the British colonial era. In 1762 he studied law in London . Upon his return to Virginia, he became a royal attorney in his home district. In 1772 and 1773 he was an MP in the colonial House of Burgesses . The sources give no information about White's role during the War of Independence . After the war he sat between 1782 and 1786 and again in 1788 in the Virginia House of Representatives . In 1788 he was a delegate to the convention that ratified the United States Constitution for Virginia.

In the congressional elections of 1789 White was elected in the first constituency of Virginia in the US House of Representatives, which was initially still in New York , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1793 . There he campaigned for the 1791 ratification of the Bill of Rights , which includes the first ten amendments to the constitution .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Alexander White was appointed by President George Washington as one of three officers to oversee the construction of the new federal capital, Washington, DC . He held this office from 1795 until the dissolution of this body in 1802. Between 1799 and 1801 White was once again a member of the state parliament. He died on October 9, 1804 on his Woodville estate in Frederick County.

Web links

• Alexander White in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Alexander White in the database of Find a Grave (English)