Bartow White

Bartow White ( born November 7, 1776 in Yorktown, New York, † December 12, 1862 in Fishkill, New York ) was an American physician and politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bartow White was born during the Revolutionary War in Yorktown. He attended community schools and completed his preparatory studies. White studied medicine with his father, Dr. Ebenezer White, and then began to practice in 1800 in Fishkill. Politically, he was a member of the National Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1824 White was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Van Wyck on March 4, 1825. He retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress. Thereafter, he practiced as a doctor again. White took as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Whig Party in the presidential election of 1840 in part. William Henry Harrison was then the winner of the race. White died in the second year of the Civil War on December 12, 1862 in Fishkill, and was buried in the Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery.