Milo White was a Representative from Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

; born in Fletcher

Fletcher, Vermont

Fletcher is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,179 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 38.0 square miles , of which, 37.8 square miles of it is land and 0.2 square miles of it ...

, Franklin County, Vermont

Franklin County, Vermont

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is part of the Burlington-South Burlington, VT Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the population was 47,746. Its shire town is the City of St. Albans.-Geography:...

; attended the common schools and Bakersfield Academy; moved to Chatfield

Chatfield, Minnesota

Chatfield is a city in Fillmore and Olmsted counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 2,779 at the 2010 census. The city's area is split almost equally between the two counties...

, Fillmore County, Minnesota

Fillmore County, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 21,122 people, 8,228 households, and 5,718 families residing in the county. The population density was 24 people per square mile . There were 8,908 housing units at an average density of 10 per square mile...

 in 1855 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; chairman of the board of supervisors of Chatfield upon its organization in 1858; served in the State senate

Minnesota Senate

The Minnesota Senate is the upper house in the Minnesota Legislature. There are 67 members, half as many as are in the Minnesota House of Representatives. In terms of membership, it is the largest upper house of any state legislature. Each Senate district in the state includes an A and B House...

 1872 – 1876, 1881, and 1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth

48th United States Congress

The Forty-eighth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1883 to March 4, 1885, during the last two years...

 and Forty-ninth congresses

49th United States Congress

The Forty-ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1885 to March 4, 1887, during the first two years...

 (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth congress

56th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:- Leadership :- Senate :* President: Garret Hobart , until November 21, 1899 , vacant thereafter.* President pro tempore: William P. Frye * Democratic Caucus Chairman: James K. Jones...

; resumed mercantile pursuits; mayor of Chatfield for several terms; member of the school board until his death in Chatfield, Minnesota; interment in Chatfield Cemetery.