Stephen V. White

Stephen V. White (1903)

Stephen Van Culen White (born August 1, 1831 in Chatham County , North Carolina , † January 18, 1913 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1887 and 1889 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Stephen Van Culen White was born a few weeks before the slave revolt led by Nat Turner . His family moved to Illinois and settled near Otterville , Jersey County . He attended the Free School there , which Dr. Silas Hamilton founded and graduated from Knox College in Galesburg in 1854 . After that, he worked at a trading house in St. Louis ( Missouri ). White studied law and began practicing law on November 4, 1856 after receiving his license to practice law. He retired in the same year for Des Moines ( Iowa ), where he practiced law until January 1, 1865th During that time, he was acting federal attorney for Iowa in 1864 . The following year he moved to New York City , where he went into banking. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange . After helping found the American Astronomical Society as an astronomer , he was elected its first president in 1883.

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1886 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Darwin R. James on March 4, 1887 . Since he on a run again in 1888 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1889 Congress of. He then resumed his practice as a lawyer. He died in Brooklyn on January 18, 1913 and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

• Stephen V. White in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Stephen V. White in the database of Find a Grave (English)