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May 28, 1876 Romney, West Virginia, United States Died on 15 Aug 1935 (aged 59)
American lawyer and politician from West Virginia
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About Robert White West Virginia State Senator
- Robert White (May 28, 1876 – August 15, 1935) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician in the U.S.
- state of West Virginia.
- White served four consecutive terms as the Prosecuting Attorney for Hampshire County (1912–1928), and served one term in the West Virginia Senate (1930–1934) representing the state's Fifteenth Senatorial District in the 40th and 41st Sessions of the West Virginia Legislature.
- During the 1933 legislative year, White served as the floor leader for the Democratic Party members of the West Virginia Senate. White was born in Romney, West Virginia in 1876 to Hampshire County Clerk of Court Christian Streit White (1839–1917) and his second wife Catharine Steele White (1837–1869) and was the grandson of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White (1794–1862).
- White was educated at Potomac Academy and began his career in public service at the age of 16 as Deputy Clerk of Court in his father's law office.
- He studied jurisprudence at the West Virginia University College of Law graduating in 1899. He began practicing law in Romney and was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Hampshire County in 1912.
- White was elected to the position four times, and served terms from 1912 to 1928.
- In addition, he served as the Commissioner of School Lands and as one of the Chancery Commissioners for Hampshire County.
- White was elected to represent the Fifteenth Senatorial District in the West Virginia Senate in 1930 and served in the senate until 1934.
- In 1933, White was chairman of the senate's Judiciary Committee and he was also appointed to two special committees: one on economy and efficiency to study state and municipal government spending, and another to investigate the road commission's awarding of a contract for gasoline, oil, and grease to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey over the Elk Refining Company. Following a prolonged illness, White died in Romney in 1935 at the age of 59.
