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Born near Hillsboro, Ohio , White was educated in the rural schools and the Hillsboro High School. Marietta (Ohio) College, M.A., 1914. He engaged in teaching at Marietta, Ohio , in 1914 and 1915. Correspondent for a Dayton, Ohio, newspaper in 1916. He served in the United States Army on the Mexican border as a private and first sergeant in Company H, Third Ohio Infantry, in 1916. During the First World War served from August 15 , 1917 , as a first lieutenant and later as a captain in the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, United States Infantry, in Italy and France. Associated with the Toledo Times in 1919 and served as managing editor 1925-1930 and associate editor in 1930 and 1931. White was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congress ( March 4 , 1931 - March 3 , 1933 ). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 and for election in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress. He was employed in a glass manufacturing concern in 1933. He served as secretary and as executive director of the Safety Glass Association 1934-1958. He engaged in independent highway safety work 1958-1961. He died in Chillicothe, Ohio , December 31 , 1973 . He was interred in Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, Ohio . SOURCE |
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