Albert Smith White

Albert Smith White ( born October 24, 1803 Orange County, New York, † September 4, 1864 in Stockwell, Indiana) was an American politician who represented the state of Indiana in both chambers of Congress.

White graduated in 1822 from Union College in Schenectady and then studied the law, after which he began in 1825 to practice as a lawyer. Later he moved to Lafayette in Indiana, where he ( clerk Assistant) worked for the House of Representatives of the State in 1831 as secretary; In 1832 he was promoted to Clerk. He competed in the same year for a seat in the Parliament chamber, but was defeated.

1836 belonged to White for the Whigs to the Electoral College, and agreed thereby for William Henry Harrison; However, the Democrat Martin Van Buren was elected President. In the same year he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he remained on 4 March 1837 to 3 March 1839. He then ran as the successor of not more antretenden John Tipton in the U.S. Senate and prevailed. During his tenure of 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1845 he was one of the Chairmen of the Committee on Indian Affairs.

After retiring from the Senate, he returned to Indiana, where he again worked in Stockwell as a lawyer and served as president of several railroad companies. 1860 White competed as a Republican again for a seat in the House of Representatives in Washington DC and was elected. After one term, he retired at his own request from Congress. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him then in a commission for the handling of legal claims against the federal government that resulted from not prevented Indian attacks. Finally, he was appointed judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Indiana; he died in September 1864 in office.