Hays B. White

Hays Baxter White ( * September 21, 1855 in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, † September 29, 1930 in Mankato, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1929 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hays White attended the public schools of his home in Iowa and worked in agriculture. In 1875 he moved to the Jewell County, Kansas, where he was also engaged in farming near the city Mankato. Since 1876 he was also a teacher there. White was a member of the Republican Party and was from 1888 to 1890 deputy in the House of Representatives from Kansas; 1900-1904 he was a member of the State Senate. In the years 1914 to 1915, White mayor of Mankato and from 1915 to 1918 he was a member of the Tax Commission of the State of Kansas.

In the congressional elections of 1918 he was in the sixth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1919, the successor to the Democrat John R. Connelly, whom he had defeated in the election. After four elections White could pass in Congress until March 3, 1929 five legislative sessions. Since 1923 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the presidential and congressional elections. During his time in Congress, the 19th Amendment was passed by the women's suffrage was introduced nationwide. 1928 White renounced to another candidacy. He died two years later in Mankato.