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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MaineWallace Humphrey WHITE, Jr.
(1877-1952)
Senate Years of Service:
1931-1949Party: RepublicanWHITE, 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;
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 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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