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WHITE, Alexander, lawyer, born in Franklin, Robertson County, Tennessee, 16 October, 1816. He was taken to Alabama when five years of age, and educated there and at the University of Tennessee, but he volunteered in the Creek and Seminole war in 1836, and therefore was not graduated. He subsequently studied law with his father, John White (1784-1842), who was one of the circuit and supreme court judges of Alabama. On his admission to the bar in 1838 he practised at first as the associate of his father, and afterward (1841-'55) as the partner of Lewis E. Parsons at Talladega. He was elected to congress as a Union Whig after an exciting contest in a Democratic district, and served from 1 December, 1851, till 3 March, 1853. In 1856 he removed to Selma, and in 1860 he supported Bell and Everett for president and vice-president. He earnestly opposed secession, but decided to act with his state when that event became inevitable. At the close of the war he was a member of the convention to frame a new constitution for Alabama, and he was elected to the general assembly of the state in 1872. In the following year he was chosen to congress as a Republican, and served from 1 December, 1873, till 4 March, 1875. In the latter year he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah. After holding the office for a brief term he returned to Alabama, and in 1875 removed to Dallas, Texas, where he practises his profession.
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