James Bain White

James Bain White ( born June 26, 1835 in Stirlingshire, United Kingdom, † October 9, 1897 in Fort Wayne, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James White attended the public schools of his native Scotland in 1854 and immigrated to the United States, where he settled in Fort Wayne. There he worked as a tailor and in calico printing. During the Civil War he was until December 1862 a captain in the army of the Union. In April 1862, he was wounded during the Battle of Shiloh.

After the war, White owner of a department store. He was also involved as Wagner in the production of wheels and got into the banking industry. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In 1874, he moved into the city council of Fort Wayne. In the congressional elections of 1886, White was in the twelfth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Lowry on March 4, 1887. Since he Democrat Charles McClellan was defeated in 1888, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1889.

1892, James White as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in part, was nominated to the President Benjamin Harrison for re-election. In 1893 he was commissioner of his State for the implementation of the World's Fair in Chicago. He died on October 9, 1897 in Fort Wayne, where he was also buried.