Compton I. White, Jr.

Compton Ignatius White, Jr. ( born December 19, 1920 in Spokane, Washington; † October 19, 1998 in Sandpoint, Idaho ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1967 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Compton White was the son of his father's eponymous Compton I. White, who represented the state of Idaho 1933-1951 twice in the U.S. House of Representatives. The younger Compton White attended the public schools in Clark Fork and Washington. Between 1938 and 1939 he studied at the George Washington University and then from 1939 to 1942 at the University of Idaho. He was also both in the mining business as well as in agriculture, above all in livestock, works.

During the Second World War he worked in the development department of the Boeing plants in Seattle. Between 1947 and 1950 he worked for the School Board of Clark Fork. As the Father has the Son also a member of the Democratic Party. In 1960 he applied unsuccessfully within his party for whose nomination to the U.S. Senate. From 1958 to 1962 he was mayor of the city of Clark Fork.

1962 Compton White was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Gracie Pfost on January 3, 1963. After a re-election in 1964 he was able to exercise this mandate until January 3, 1967. In the elections of 1966 he was defeated Jim McClure. In 1967, White was an advisor to the U.S. Treasury. Then he went back to his private business, primarily agriculture.