Richard Crawford White

Richard Crawford White ( born April 29, 1923 in El Paso, Texas, † February 18, 1998 ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1983 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard White visited the Dudley Primary School and then the El Paso High School. This was followed by military training in the Citizen 's Military Training Camp joined in San Antonio. Between 1940 and 1942 he studied at Texas Western College. During the Second World War, White served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific. After the war he continued his education with studies at the University of Texas. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and his 1949 was admitted to the bar he began in El Paso to work in this profession. At the same time proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1955 and 1958 he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives. In the years 1963-1965 he served as Chairman of the County Council in El Paso County.

In the congressional elections of 1964, White was in the 16th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ed Foreman on January 3, 1965. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1983 nine legislative sessions. There he was at times a member of the Armed Services Committee, Committee on Internal Affairs, the Postal Committee and the Committee on Science and Technology. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the final phase of the civil rights movement.

1982 renounced Richard White on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 18 February 1998 in El Paso and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.