WHITE, Wallace Humphrey, Jr, .
(grandson of William Pierce Frye), a Representative and a Senator from Maine;
born in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, August 6, 1877; attended the
public schools of Lewiston; graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in
1899; assistant clerk to the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, and
secretary to his grandfather, the President pro tempore 1899-1903; studied law;
was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Lewiston, Maine; elected as a
Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1917-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate for renomination in 1930, having become
a candidate for Senator; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department
of Justice (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Woman Suffrage (Sixty-seventh
through Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
(Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); served as a presidential appointee on
a variety of commissions; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942 and served from March 4, 1931, to
January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; minority leader
1944-1947; majority leader 1947-1949; chairman, Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce (Eightieth Congress); retired from political and business
activities; died in Auburn, Maine, March 31, 1952; interment in Mount Auburn
Cemetery.
-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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