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Oil on canvas, Gerard Barry, 1911, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
WHITE, John, (cousin of Addison White and uncle of John Daugherty White),
a Representative from Kentucky; born near Cumberland Gap (now
Middlesboro), Ky., February 14, 1802; received a limited schooling; studied
law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Richmond, Madison
County, Ky.; member of the State house of representatives in 1832; elected as a
Whig to the Twenty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1835-March 3, 1845); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twenty-seventh
Congress); appointed judge of the nineteenth judicial district of Kentucky and
served from February 8, 1845, until his death in Richmond, Ky., September 22,
1845; interment in the State Cemetery, Frankfort, Franklin County, Ky.
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