Harry White (Pennsylvania)

Harry White ( born January 12, 1834 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, † June 23, 1920 ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry White attended the Indiana Academy and then studied until 1854 at the Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1855 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in his home town Indiana in this profession. During the Civil War he served as a Major in the army of the Union. During his military service, he was elected as a member of the Republican Party in the Senate of Pennsylvania, whose meetings he attended during the years 1862 and 1863. After that he was taken prisoner.

After the war, White continued his political career. Between 1865 and 1874 he was again a member and in his last year even President of the State Senate. In 1872 he took part in a constitutional convention of his state as a delegate. In the same year he applied unsuccessfully for the post of Governor of Pennsylvania. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the 25th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats George A. Jenks on March 4, 1877. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 two legislative sessions.

In 1880, Harry White gave up another Congress candidate. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was 1894-1904 judge in Indiana County. He then practiced as a lawyer again. He also went into the banking industry. He died on June 23, 1920 in his hometown of Indiana, where he was also buried.