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Journal, 18'38-29; assistant clerk of the Indiana house of representatives, 18:50-31, and clerk of the same. ls;3"2-3."); a Whig representative from Indiana in the Ooth congress. 1837-39. and U.S. senator from Indiana. 1839-45. He subsetiuently returned to the practice of hiw, but gave most of his time to raih-oad interests, serving as president of the IndianaiHilis and Lafayette road and of the "Wabasli and Western railway. He was a Repub- lican representative from Indiana in the 37th congress, 1861-63. serving as chairman of the committee on compensated emancipation, and by his strenuous supjwrt of the abolition of slavery forfeited a re-election to the 38th congress. He was subsequently U.S. commissioner to adjust claims against the Sioux Indians, and on Jan. 18, 1864. by appointment from President Lincoln, succeeded Caleb B. Smith, deceased, as U.S. judge for the district of Indiana, serving until his death, in Stockwell. Ind., Sept. 4, 1864.

WHITE. Alexander, delegate, was born in Rappahannock county. Va., in 1738. He pos- sessed unusual oratorical powers, which he used in behalf of the Revolutionary movement, and while a delegate to the Continental congress, 1786-88, in carrying on the war. He was a representative from Virginia in the 1st and 2d congresses, 1789- 93. He died in Woodville. Va.. Sept., 1804.

WHITE, Andrew Dickson, educator and diplo- mat, was born in Homer. X.Y., Nov. 7,1832; son of Horace and Clara (Dickson) White; grand- son of Asa and Clara (Keep) White, and of Andrew and Ruth (Hall) Dickson. He attended the Cortland Acad- emy at Homer, N.Y., of which his mater- nal grandfather was one of the founders; removed with his parents in 1839 to Syracuse, N.Y., where he continued his ed- ucation in the pub- lic schools, and in Syracuse academy; was a student in Hohart college, 1852, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856, wliere he received the DeForest and Yale Liter- ary gold medals and the first Clarke prize. He was a post-graduate student in history at the universities of Paris and Berlin, 1853-55 (serving meanwhile as att:iche to the U.S. Legation at St. Petersburg. Russia), and at Yale. 1856; wa.s pro- fessor of history and English literature. Univer- sity of Michigan. 1857-63. and lecturer on history. 1863-67. He returned to Syracusp, N.Y., in 1863,

and served as state senator, 1863-67, introducing bills codifj'ing the school laws of the state, cre- ating a new system of normal schools and incor- porating Cornell university at Itiiaca. N.Y., and made a report establisiiing a iiealth department in the city of New York. He .served as first president of Cornell, 1867-85, visiting Europe. 1867-68, to purchase books and apparatus for the university, and to investigate the organization of foreign schools of agriculture and technology. He personally contributed S300.000 toward the equipment fund, and in 1887 founded the new school of history and political science, bearing his name, giving to it his historical library, numbering over 40,000 volumes, exclusive of pamphlets and manuscripts. He was U.S. com- missioner to Santo Domingo, 1871; president of the state Republican convention, 1871; a delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1872 and 1884; a presidential elector on the Grant and Wilson ticket of 1872; chairman of the jury of public instruction at the Centennial exposition, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876, and honorary U.S. com- missioner to the World's exposition at Paris, serving on the jury of appeals, 1878. He was absent from Cornell university as U.S. minister to Germany, 1879-81; was U.S. minister to Rus- sia, 1892-94; a member of the Venezuelan com- mission, 1896-97, and a second time appointed ambassador to Germany in 1897. He was a mem- ber of the peace commission at the Hague, and president of the delegation to the same, 1899. In November, 1902, he resigned his ambassador- ship in order to devote his entire attention to literary work, making his residence in Ithaca, N.Y. He was twice married: first, in 1859, to Mary A., daughter of Peter and Lucia (Phillips) Outwater of Syracuse, N.Y., who died in 1887; and secondly, in 1900, to Helen, daughter of Dr. Edward Hicks and Eudora (Behan) Magill; she was graduated from Swarthmore college, A.B.; Boston university, M.A., and afterward pursued her studies at Newnham college, Cambridge, Eng- land, and became a Greek scholor of note, and was principal of West Bridgewater academy, Mass., and preceptress of Evelyn college, Prince- ton, N.J. Ambassador W^hite received the hon- orary degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan, 1867; from Cornell, 1886; from Yale, 1887; from St. Andrews, Scotland, 1902, and from Jolms Hopkins university, 1902; that of L.H.D. from Columbia, 1887, that of Ph.D. from the University of Jena. 1889. and that of D.C.L. from Oxford, England, 1902. He was a trustee of Hobart college, 1866-77. and of Cornell from 1866. a regent of the Smithsonian Institution; a trustee of the Carnegie Institution, Washington; first jiresidentof the American Historical .society; honorary member of the New England Historic