WHITE
WHITE
Journal, 18'38-29; assistant clerk of the Indiana
house of representatives, 18:50-31 , and clerk of
the same. ls;3"2-3."); a Whig representative from
Indiana in the Ooth congress. 1837-39. and U.S.
senator from Indiana. 1839-45. He subsetiuently
returned to the practice of hiw, but gave most of
his time to raih-oad interests, serving as president
of the IndianaiHilis and Lafayette road and of the
"Wabasli and Western railway. He was a Repub-
lican representative from Indiana in the 37th
congress, 1861-63. serving as chairman of the
committee on compensated emancipation, and by
his strenuous supjwrt of the abolition of slavery
forfeited a re-election to the 38th congress. He
was subsequently U.S. commissioner to adjust
claims against the Sioux Indians, and on Jan. 18,
1864. by appointment from President Lincoln,
succeeded Caleb B. Smith, deceased, as U.S. judge
for the district of Indiana, serving until his
death, in Stockwell. Ind., Sept. 4, 1864.
WHITE. Alexander, delegate, was born in Rappahannock county. Va., in 1738. He pos- sessed unusual oratorical powers, which he used in behalf of the Revolutionary movement, and while a delegate to the Continental congress, 1786-88, in carrying on the war. He was a representative from Virginia in the 1st and 2d congresses, 1789- 93. He died in Woodville. Va.. Sept., 1804.
WHITE, Andrew Dickson, educator and diplo- mat, was born in Homer. X.Y., Nov. 7,1832; son of Horace and Clara (Dickson) White; grand- son of Asa and Clara (Keep) White, and of Andrew and Ruth (Hall) Dickson. He attended the Cortland Acad- emy at Homer, N.Y., of which his mater- nal grandfather was one of the founders; removed with his parents in 1839 to Syracuse, N.Y., where he continued his ed- ucation in the pub- lic schools, and in Syracuse academy; was a student in Hohart college, 1852, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856, wliere he received the DeForest and Yale Liter- ary gold medals and the first Clarke prize. He was a post-graduate student in history at the universities of Paris and Berlin, 1853-55 (serving meanwhile as att:iche to the U.S. Legation at St. Petersburg. Russia), and at Yale. 1856; wa.s pro- fessor of history and English literature. Univer- sity of Michigan. 1857-63. and lecturer on history. 1863-67. He returned to Syracusp, N.Y., in 1863,
and served as state senator, 1863-67, introducing
bills codifj'ing the school laws of the state, cre-
ating a new system of normal schools and incor-
porating Cornell university at Itiiaca. N.Y., and
made a report establisiiing a iiealth department
in the city of New York. He .served as first
president of Cornell, 1867-85, visiting Europe.
1867-68, to purchase books and apparatus for the
university, and to investigate the organization of
foreign schools of agriculture and technology.
He personally contributed S300.000 toward the
equipment fund, and in 1887 founded the new
school of history and political science, bearing
his name, giving to it his historical library,
numbering over 40,000 volumes, exclusive of
pamphlets and manuscripts. He was U.S. com-
missioner to Santo Domingo, 1871; president of
the state Republican convention, 1871; a delegate
to the national Republican conventions of 1872
and 1884; a presidential elector on the Grant and
Wilson ticket of 1872; chairman of the jury of
public instruction at the Centennial exposition,
Philadelphia, Pa., 1876, and honorary U.S. com-
missioner to the World's exposition at Paris,
serving on the jury of appeals, 1878. He was
absent from Cornell university as U.S. minister
to Germany, 1879-81; was U.S. minister to Rus-
sia, 1892-94; a member of the Venezuelan com-
mission, 1896-97, and a second time appointed
ambassador to Germany in 1897. He was a mem-
ber of the peace commission at the Hague, and
president of the delegation to the same, 1899.
In November, 1902, he resigned his ambassador-
ship in order to devote his entire attention to
literary work, making his residence in Ithaca,
N.Y. He was twice married: first, in 1859, to
Mary A., daughter of Peter and Lucia (Phillips)
Outwater of Syracuse, N.Y., who died in 1887;
and secondly, in 1900, to Helen, daughter of Dr.
Edward Hicks and Eudora (Behan) Magill; she
was graduated from Swarthmore college, A.B.;
Boston university, M.A., and afterward pursued
her studies at Newnham college, Cambridge, Eng-
land, and became a Greek scholor of note, and
was principal of West Bridgewater academy,
Mass., and preceptress of Evelyn college, Prince-
ton, N.J. Ambassador W^hite received the hon-
orary degree of LL.D. from the University of
Michigan, 1867; from Cornell, 1886; from Yale,
1887; from St. Andrews, Scotland, 1902, and
from Jolms Hopkins university, 1902; that of
L.H.D. from Columbia, 1887, that of Ph.D. from
the University of Jena. 1889. and that of D.C.L.
from Oxford, England, 1902. He was a trustee
of Hobart college, 1866-77. and of Cornell from
1866. a regent of the Smithsonian Institution; a
trustee of the Carnegie Institution, Washington;
first jiresidentof the American Historical .society;
honorary member of the New England Historic
