John D. White

John D. White

John Daugherty White (born January 16, 1849 in Manchester , Clay County , Kentucky , †  January 5, 1920 there ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1877 and again from 1881 to 1885 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John D. White was a nephew of John White (1802-1845), who had also represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives between 1835 and 1845 and was there as speaker from 1841 to 1843 president of this body. The younger White attended private schools until 1865. He then graduated from Eminence College and studied at the University of Kentucky in Lexington . After studying law and medicine at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , he began working as a lawyer in 1875.

Politically, White became a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1874 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded George Madison Adams on March 4, 1875 . Since he was no longer running in 1876, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1877 . In 1879, White was chairman of the Kentucky Regional Republican Party Convention in Louisville . He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1879 and 1880 . In June 1880, White was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where James A. Garfield was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1881 his candidacy for the US Senate failed .

In the congressional election of 1880 , White was re-elected to Congress in the ninth district of Kentucky. There he replaced Thomas Turner from the Democratic Party on March 4, 1881 , who had become his successor in Congress in 1877. Until March 3, 1883 he represented this district there. In the elections of 1882 he was elected in the tenth district to succeed Elijah Phister . This enabled him to spend another legislative period in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1885.

In 1884 White renounced another candidacy. He then practiced as a lawyer in Louisville. In 1903 he ran unsuccessfully for the Prohibition Party for governor of Kentucky. He later became a member of the Progressive Party . In 1912 he unsuccessfully applied for the position of judge at the Kentucky Court of Appeals . John White died on January 5, 1920 near Manchester.

Web links

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• John D. White in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John D. White in the database of Find a Grave (English)