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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaJames Bain WHITE
(1835-1897)
WHITE, James Bain, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, June
26, 1835; attended the common schools; immigrated to the United
States in 1854; settled in Fort Wayne, Ind.; calico printer;
tailor; Indiana Volunteers, Company I, Thirteenth Regiment, elected
captain of the company and served until December 1862, when he
resigned; wounded in the Battle of Shiloh April 7, 1862; elected a
member of the common council of Fort Wayne, Ind., 1874; department
store owner; manufactured wheels; banker; elected as a Republican
to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-first Congress
in 1888; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892;
commissioner to the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago,
1893; died on October 9, 1897, in Fort Wayne, Ind.; interment in
Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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