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  White, John D.
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AffiliationRepublican   
NameJohn D. White
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Manchester, Kentucky , United States
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Born January 16, 1849
Died January 05, 1920 (70 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Sep 06, 2015 11:09pm
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InfoWHITE, John Daugherty, (nephew of John White), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Manchester, Clay County, Ky., January 16, 1849; attended a private school until 1865 and Eminence (Ky.) College and the University of Kentucky at Lexington until 1870; was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1872; also attended the medical department of the same institution; was admitted to the bar by the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1875 and practiced; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); declined to be a candidate for renomination; chairman of the Kentucky Republican State convention at Louisville in 1879; member of the State house of representatives in 1879 and 1880; resigned in 1880; endorsed and reelected without opposition during the sitting of the legislature; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1885); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884 and resumed the practice of law in Louisville, Ky.; unsuccessful candidate of the State Prohibition Party for Governor of Kentucky in 1903; unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive Party for judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1912; died near Manchester, Ky., January 5, 1920; interment in the family burying ground near Manchester, Clay County, Ky.


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  11/10/1903 KY - District 11 Special Election Lost 12.11% (-31.99%)
  11/06/1900 KY Governor - Special Election Lost 0.49% (-49.38%)
  11/08/1898 KY - District 11 Lost 37.00% (-14.68%)
  11/03/1896 KY - District 11 Lost 11.42% (-44.82%)
  11/07/1882 KY - District 10 Won 52.53% (+5.05%)
  11/02/1880 KY - District 09 Won 53.48% (+6.95%)
  11/03/1874 KY - District 09 Won 51.30% (+3.68%)
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