Phineas White

Phineas White ( * October 30 1770 in South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, † July 6, 1847 in Putney, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Phineas White attended until 1797, Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After studying law and its made ​​in 1800 admitted to the bar he began in Pomfret (Vermont ) to work in his new profession. Between 1800 and 1809 he was also employed at the Probate Court in Windsor County. From 1814 to 1820 White was repeatedly judge in Windham County. In the years 1814 and 1815 he was in the area of ​​Westminster (Vermont ) judges at the local probate court.

Politically, White Member, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In 1814 he was a member of a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Vermont, and from 1815 to 1820 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont. In 1820 he was in the second district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1821 in the footsteps of Mark Richards. In Congress, he completed until March 3, 1823 a legislative period.

In 1836, White was again a member of Assembly for a fresh revision of the State Constitution. From 1836 to 1837 he was a member of the Senate from Vermont. He was also still curator of Middlebury College. Phineas White died in July 1847 in Putney.