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.<\/p>\n
Sources: Goodspeed, History of Hawkins County<\/em>, 1238; Paw Papers, Tennessee State Library; Price, Hawkins County Marriage Records<\/em>, 156; Morristown Gazette<\/em>, November 3, 1897; Hawkins County Miscellaneous Records<\/em>, 41.<\/p>\n From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}