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Senate Years of Service: 1914-1915 Party: Democrat
WHITE, Francis Shelley (Frank), a Senator from Alabama; born in Prairie, Noxubee County, Miss., March 13, 1847;
attended the common schools and was tutored at home; during the Civil War served in the
Confederate Army as a private; after the close of the war engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1868;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in West Point, Miss.; member,
State house of representatives 1875, 1882-1883; moved to Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala., in
1886 and continued the practice of law; elected on May 11, 1914, as a Democrat to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph F. Johnston and served from May 11, 1914,
to March 3, 1915; was not a candidate for renomination; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary
Claims (Fifty-third Congress); resumed the practice of his profession until his death in Birmingham,
Ala., August 1, 1922; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
BibliographyWatson, Elbert L, "Frank Shelley White." In Alabama United States Senators, pp. 103-4. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1982.
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