Background
White, Henry was born on March 29, 1850 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of John Campbell and Eliza (Ridgely) White.
White, Henry was born on March 29, 1850 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of John Campbell and Eliza (Ridgely) White.
Educated private tutors and schools, United States and France. Doctor of Laws, St. Andrew’s U., Scotland, also Johns Hopkins, 1915, and Harvard, 1917.
Secretary American Legation, Vienna, 1883-1884. Transferred as 2d secretary of legation, London, 1884, promoted secretary, 1886. Recalled by President Cleveland, 1893.
Secretary of embassy, London, 1897-1905. From 1886 repeatedly acted as charge d’affaires. Represented United States at International Conference, London, 1887-1888, for the abolition of sugar bounties.
Senior delegate from United States to International Conference on Agriculture, Rome, 1905, which resulted in the foundation of the International Institute of Agriculture. Senior delegate from United States to International Conference on Moroccan affairs at Algeciras, 1906. American ambassador to Italy, March 1905-March 1907, to France, March 1907-December 1909.
Chairman American delegation to 4th Pan-American Conference, Buenos Aires, 1910. Special ambassador of the United States to Chile for celebration of centenary of Chilean independence, September 1910. Elected member board of trustees Carnegie Institution Washington, and George Washington University, 1913, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1915.
Member Washington Cathedral Chapter, 1915. Regent Smithsonian Institution Manager Potomac Division American Red Cross, 1917.
Clubs: Athenaeum, Marlborough, Bachelors’, Beefsteak, Royal Automobile; Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, New York; Metropolitan, Washington; Cercles de l’Union and de la Rue Royale, Paris.
Married Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, December 3, 1879. Married second, Emily Vanderbilt, widow of William Douglas Sloane, November 3, 1920.
