James Bamford White

James Bamford White ( * June 6, 1842 in Winchester, Kentucky, † March 25, 1931 in Irvine, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James White attended the public schools of his home and then the Mount Zion Academy in Macon County, Illinois. During the Civil War he joined in the autumn of 1863 when the army of the Confederacy. There he served until the war ended in 1865. Subsequently he was in Irvine worked as a teacher. After a simultaneous study of law and its 1867 was admitted to a lawyer, he began in Irvine to work in this profession. Between 1872 and 1880 he served as a prosecutor in Estill County.

Politically White was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1900 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick on March 4, 1901. Since he resigned in 1902 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1903.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives James White again practiced as a lawyer. In 1919 he sat down to rest. He died on 25 March 1931 in Irvine.