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tariff ; urged the policy of removing the Indians west of the Mississippi, and advocated limiting executive patronage, which last act caused a breach in his relations with President Jackson. He was nominated for President on the "Whig ticket in I806 and received 26 electoral votes, W. H. Harrison receiving 73, and Martin Van Buren, 170. He was re-elected to the senate for a full term in 1836, but resigned his seat Jan. 13, 1840, rather than obey the instructions of the Tennessee legislature, and was succeeded, Feb. 26, 1840, by Alexander Anderson of Knoxville. His " Memoir " by Nancy N. Scott, was published (1S.j6). He died in Knoxville, April 10, 1840.

WHITE, James, pioneer, was born in Iredell county, N.C., in 1737. He joined the Continental army at the outbreak of the Revolution and re- ceived as his pay, a tract of land in North Caro- lina. He was one of the founders of the proposed state of Franklin, 1784, and in 1787 located on the Holston river near the French Broad, where he erected a fort, built a grist mill and in 1791 made a treaty with the Cherokees. This settlement was later laid out in lots and named Knoxville. White was a member of the territorial legisla- ture ; was a territorial delegate to the 3d con- gress, 1793-95, and when Tennessee was admitted into the Union, in 1796, he was chosen state sen- ator and speaker of the senate, which office he held until 1797, when he resigned. He was com- missioned brigadier-general of Tennessee volun- teers, and in 1813 led an attack on the Creek Indians at Hillabee. He died in Knoxville, in 1815.

WHITE, John, representative, was born in Kentucky, in 1805. He practised law in Rich- mond, Ky. ; was a Whig representative from Kentucky in the 24th-28th congresses, 1835-45, being elected without opposition and serving as speaker of the house in the 27th congress. He was judge of the 19th judicial district of Ken- tucky at the time of his death, which occurred through suicide at Richmond, Ky., Sept. 22, 1845.

WHITE, John Blake, lawyer, artist, and dramatist, was born at Eutaw Springs, S.C., Sept. 2, 1781 ; son of Blake Leay and Elizabeth (Bourquin) White ; and a descendant of Sir John White of Kent, England. He was brought up on his father's plantation at Eutaw Springs ; attended an academy ; studied law in Columbia, S.C., until 1800, but temporarily abandoned it in the latter year to give his attention to art, going to England with his friend and relative, W^ashington Allston. He studied painting under Benjamin West, 1800- 04, and upon his return was married, in 1805, to Eliza Allston of Georgetown, S.C. In 1805 he removed to Boston, Mass., intending to follow his profession as an artist, but not receiving sufficient encouragement returned to Charleston, S.C, and again took up the study of law with his friend

John C. Calhoun ; after admission to the bar he began the practice of law, in which he achieved great success. He was a representative in the state legislature several terms, and organized and commanded a company of South Carolina in- fantry in the war of 1812. In the years 1832-33, when the legislature of South Carolina was made up of nuUifiers, he strongly and unflinchingly supported the Union cause. Mr. White's first wife died in 1817, and he was married, secondly, in 1819, to Anna Rachel, daughter of Dr. Matthew 0"Driscoll of Charleston. Their son, Octavius Augustus, became a prominent jjliysician in New York cit}', making a specialty of the treatment of yellow fever. Although professionally' engaged in the practice of law, Mr. White devoted his leisure to artistic and literary production, win- ning the sobriquet of " The Old American Master." He received a gold medal from the South Carolina institute and the first prize from the Apollo asso- ciation of New York in 1840, for the " best his- torical painting " ; was the founder of the Literary Lyceum of South Carolina, and an honorary member of the National Academy of Design. His canvases, representing chiefly historical subjects, include: Battle of Eutaw Springs (1804); Battle of Fort Moultrie (1806) ; Battle of New Orleans (1816) ; Marion Inviting the British Officer to Dinner; Mrs. Motte Presenting the Burning Arrows to Marion and Lee, to fire her Residence to dislodge the British ; The Capture of Andre ; The Unfurling of the United States Flag in the City of Mexico to quell Civil Riot, which remained the property of President Jackson, and subsequently hung in the capitol at Columbia, S.C, until its destruction by Sherman's army in 1805. Several of the historical paintings were presented to the U.S. congress by his son Dr. Octavius A. White, and now hang in the senate wing of the capitol at Washington. Among his portrait subjects are : Charles C Pinckney, Keating L. Simmons, John C Calhoun, and Gov. Henry Middleton. He published the following dramas, which were pro- duced in America : Foscari, or the Venetian Exile (1805) ; Mysteries of the Castle (1806) ; Modern Honor (1812) ; Triumph of Liberty, or Louisiana Preserved (1819), and hitemperance (1839). He died in Charleston, S.C, Aug. 24, 1859.

WHITE, John Hazen, first bishop of Michigan City and 175lh in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 10, 1849 ; son of Moses Hazen and Mary Miller (Williams) White ; grandson of John Hazen and Roxana (Robinson) White, and of James and Candace (Billings) Williams, and a descendant of William Wliite, who was born in 1610, landed at Ipswicli, Mass., 1635, from county Norfolk, Eng- land ; and was one of the founders of Newbury, Mass. In 1640 he removed to Haverhill, of wliich