Joseph M. White

Joseph Mills White ( * May 10, 1781 in Franklin County, Kentucky, † October 19, 1839 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1837 he represented the Florida Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph White attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. In 1821 he moved to Pensacola in the then Spanish colony of Florida. There he was a member of the Territorial Government and was a colonel commanding the militia. In 1822, White was a member of a commission that analyzed land tenure in Florida after the transfer of the territory from Spain to the United States.

In the congressional elections of 1824 White was a delegate for the Florida Territory to Congress in Washington DC chosen, where he replaced Richard Keith Call on March 4, 1825. After five re- elections, he was able to complete six legislative periods 1837 to March 3. These were determined since 1829 by the discussions about the policies of President Andrew Jackson. Joseph White was officially to no party, but was the opponents of President Jackson close. In 1836 he was not re-elected.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives White wrote a two-volume treatise entitled " New Collection of Laws, Charters, etc of Great Britain, France, and Spain Relating to Cessions of Lands with the Laws of Mexico". It went back to the legal history of land ownership. In 1839, White moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked as a lawyer. He died there on 19 October of the same year. He was the son of the Governor and U.S. Senator John Adair of Kentucky.