Cecil F. White

Cecil F. White (1949)

Cecil Fielding White (born December 12, 1900 in Temple , Texas , †  March 29, 1992 in San Francisco , California ) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1951 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cecil White attended the public schools in Fort Smith ( Arkansas ). He joined the US Army at the age of 16 and served on the Mexican border . During the First World War he was employed as a sergeant in an artillery unit in France between 1917 and 1919 . After the war, White began a career in the cotton industry. He first worked in a cotton merchant's office in Los Angeles . He then worked in the cotton business in California, Arkansas and Tennessee . In Kern County he founded Cecil F. White Ranches, Inc. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1948 congressional election , White was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of California , where he succeeded Bertrand W. Gearhart on January 3, 1949 . Since he was not confirmed in 1950, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1951 . This was shaped by the events of the Cold War . In 1966, White ran unsuccessfully as a Republican in the 16th district of California to return to Congress. Otherwise he was no longer politically active. He spent his old age in San Francisco, where he died on March 29, 1992.

Web links

• Cecil F. White in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)