John D. White

Who was John D. White?

John Daugherty White was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, nephew of John White.

Born near Manchester in Clay County, Kentucky, White attended a private school until 1865 and Eminence College and the University of Kentucky at Lexington until 1870. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1872. He also attended the medical department of the same institution. He was admitted to the bar by the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1875 and practiced.

White was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination. He served as chairman of the Kentucky Republican State convention at Louisville in 1879. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1879 and 1880. He resigned in 1880. Endorsed and reelected without opposition during the sitting of the legislature. He served as delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1881.

White was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses.