John D. White

John Daugherty White ( born January 16, 1849 in Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky, † January 5, 1920 ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1877, and again from 1881 to 1885, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John D. White was a nephew of John White (1802-1845), who had also represented 1835-1845 the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was as Speaker from 1841 to 1843 President of that body. The younger White attended until 1865 private schools. He then attended the Eminence College and studied at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. After law and medical studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1875 he began to work as a lawyer.

Politically, White was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1874 he was in the ninth constituency of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Madison Adams on March 4, 1875. Since he did not run in 1876, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1877. In 1879, White was chairman of the regional Republican Party Congress of Kentucky in Louisville. In 1879 and 1880 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In June 1880 was a delegate to the White Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated for the James A. Garfield as a presidential candidate. In 1881, failed his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1880 White was re-elected in the ninth district of Kentucky in Congress. There he broke on March 4, 1881 from Thomas Turner of the Democratic Party, which was in 1877 became his successor in Congress. Until March 3, 1883, he represented this district there. For the 1882 elections he was elected in the tenth district as the successor of Elijah Phister. So that he could spend another term in the House of Representatives until March 3, 1885.

1884 White renounced to another candidacy. He subsequently practiced law in Louisville. In 1903, he ran unsuccessfully for the Prohibition Party for the office of governor of Kentucky. Later he became a member of the Progressive Party. In 1912 he applied unsuccessfully for the post of judge at the Kentucky Court of Appeals. John White died on January 5, 1920 near Manchester.