Hays B. White

Hays B. White

Hays Baxter White (born September 21, 1855 in Fairfield , Jefferson County , Iowa , †  September 29, 1930 in Mankato , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1929 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hays White attended public schools in his home in Iowa and then worked in agriculture. In 1875 he moved to Jewell County , Kansas, where he also worked in agriculture near the town of Mankato. From 1876 he was also a teacher there. White became a member of the Republican Party and was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas from 1888 to 1890 ; between 1900 and 1904 he was a member of the State Senate . White was Mayor of Mankato from 1914 to 1915 and served on the Kansas State Tax Commission from 1915 to 1918.

In the 1918 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth district of Kansas . There he stepped on March 4, 1919 to succeed the Democrat John R. Connelly , whom he had defeated in the election. After four re-elections, White could serve five terms in Congress by March 3, 1929 . From 1923 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the presidential and congressional elections. During his time in Congress, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed, which introduced women's suffrage nationwide. In 1928 White decided not to run again. He died two years later in Mankato.

Web links

• Hays B. White in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hays B. White in the database of Find a Grave (English)