Harry White was a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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Biography

Harry White was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania

Indiana, Pennsylvania

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. He attended the Indiana Academy, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1854. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in June 1855 and commenced practice in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He entered the Union Army

Union Army

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 as major of the Sixty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, on December 13, 1861. Mustered out February 22, 1865. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate

Pennsylvania State Senate

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 during his military service and attended its sessions in the winter of 1862 to 1863. He was reelected to the State Senate and served from 1865 to 1874, being speaker at the close of the last term. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1872. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1872.

White was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth

45th United States Congress

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 and Forty-sixth

46th United States Congress

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 Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880

United States House election, 1880

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. He was elected a judge of Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Indiana County, Pennsylvania

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, in 1884. He was reelected in 1894 and served until 1904; resumed the practice of law and engaged in banking. He died in Indiana, Pennsylvania, in 1920. Interment in Oakland Cemetery.