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WHITE, George, a Representative from Ohio; born in Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y.,
August 21, 1872; moved with his parents to Titusville, Crawford County, Pa., in
1874; attended the common schools; was graduated from the local high school in
1891 and from Princeton College in 1895; taught school for several years; mined
in the Klondike 1898-1901; moved to Washington County, Ohio, in 1902 and
settled in Marietta; engaged in the production of oil; member of the State
house of representatives 1905-1908; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1908
to the Sixty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and
Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected to the Sixty-fifth
Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; served as chairman of the
Democratic National Committee from July 1920 to November 1921; resumed his
former activities in the oil business; Governor of Ohio 1931-1935; chairman of
the Northwest Territory (Federal) Commission in 1938; vice chairman of the
Marietta College Board of Trustees; vice president and a director of Peoples
Banking & Trust Co. of Marietta, Ohio; died in West Palm Beach, Fla.,
December 15, 1953; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.
BibliographyQueenan, Thomas J. The Public Career of George White,
1905-1941. Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State University, 1976.
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