Member of Tennessee House, 30th and 36th General Assemblies, 1853-55, 1869-71; representing Hawkins County; SENATE, 38th General Assembly, 1873-75; representing Claiborne, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, and Sullivan counties; progressively Whig, Conservative, and Democrat. Born in Rogersville, Hawkins County on June 12, 1828; son of the Rev. George and Sarah (Snodgrass) White. Well educated; licensed in 1865 to practice law. Occupation: lawyer and planter at Rogersville. Married in Hawkins County on October 2, 1851, to Margaret McClure; children–Charles Wesley, George Hopkins, James Houston, William Thomas, Susan Ida, Andrew McClure, and Sarah Virginia White. Special agent of the Post Office of Tennessee, 1868; in same year appointed U.S. Consul to Matamar, Mexico. Two times unsuccessful candidate for Congress. Member Methodist Church. Died in Rogersville on October 25, 1897; buried in the Methodist Churchyard at that place. Grandson of Colonel William Snodgrass; brother of John F. White and John W. White (!), all sometime members Tennessee General Assembly.

Sources: Goodspeed, History of Hawkins County, 1238; Paw Papers, Tennessee State Library; Price, Hawkins County Marriage Records, 156; Morristown Gazette, November 3, 1897; Hawkins County Miscellaneous Records, 41.

From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3