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He was born in Iredell county, North Carolina, on the 30th of October 1773. He was the eldest son of James White and Mary Lawson White.
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Washington, January 13, 1840. Sir :W ehave baen deputed by a large number of your fellow citizens of both Houses of Congress, who had the happiness to liear in the Senate oi the United States, to-day, your reply to sundry resolutions lately adopted by the Legislature of Tennessee relative to your course as one of her Senators in Congress, to request that you will be pleased to furnish them with a copy of that reply for publication. Those in behalf of whom we now address you have been prompted to make this request as well by the high adf Tiiration so lucid an exposition of your principles could not but excite, as from the conviction, that going with the sanction of your deservedly exalted reputation before the American people, it must be productive of the most salutary etlects upon the public mind. Persuading ourselves to believe that you will not rcluse to gratify this desire, in which we feel assured of the almost unanimous concurrence of your fellow citizens generally, we be?; leave to subscribe ourselves. With the most perfect respect. Your obedient servants, WM. D. MERRICK, of Maryland. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, of New York. Ho.v. Hc GuL. White, of Tennessee. Washington, January 14, 1840. Gentlemen :I have real wiih great sensibility your kind note of yesterday, asking a copy of my answer to the General Assembly of Tennessee, which I read in the Senate of the United States. I cannot do otherwise than comply with such a request, I rom such a quarter, and clothed in terms so highly flattering. I have so little confidence in my own ability to say any thing worthy of preservation, that I very mucli fear when you peruse my answer you will find it was the novelty of the scene, rather than the matter contained in the document, which excited any interest in favor oi its a nth or. Accept for yourselves and those whom you represent, my most grateful acknowledgments for (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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He was born in Iredell county, North Carolina, on the 30th of October 1773. He was the eldest son of James White and Mary Lawson White.
He studied in Philadelphia and in 1796 he was admitted to the bar at Knoxville.
In 1787 he crossed the mountains into East Tennessee (then a part of North Carolina) with his father James White (1737 - 1815), who was subsequently prominent in the early history of Tennessee. Hugh became in 1790 secretary to Governor William Blount, and in 1792-1793 served under John Sevier against the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and in the battle of Etowah (December 1793), according to the accepted tradition, killed with his own hand the Cherokee chief Kingfisher.
He was a judge of the Superior Court of Tennessee in 1801-1807, a state senator in 1807-1809, and in 1809-1815 was judge of the newly organized Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of the state. From 1812 to 1827 he was president of the State Bank of Tennessee at Knoxville, and managed it so well that for several years during this period it was the only western bank that in the trying period during and after the War of 1812 did not suspend specie payments.
In 1821-1824 he was a member of the Spanish Claims Commission, and in 1825 succeeded Andrew Jackson in the United States Senate, serving until 1840 and being president pro tem in 1832.
In the Senate he opposed internal improvements by the Federal government and the recharter of the United States Bank, favoured a protective tariff and Jackson's coercive policy in regard to nullification, and in general supported the measures of President Jackson, though his opposition to the lalter's indiscriminate appointments caused a coolness between himself and Jackson, which was increased by White's refusal to vote to expunge the resolutions of a former Senate censuring the president.
In 1830, as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, he secured the passage of a bill looking to the removal of the Indians to lands west of the Mississippi.
He was opposed to Van Buren, Jackson's candidate for the presidency in 1836, was himself nominated in several states as an independent candidate, and received the twenty-six electoral votes of Tennessee and Georgia, though President Jackson made strong efforts to defeat him in the former state.
His strict principles and his conservatism won for him the sobriquet of " The Cato of the United States Senate. "
He died at Knoxville on the 10th of April 1840.
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About 1838 he became a Whig in politics, and when the Democratic legislature of Tennessee instructed him to vote for Van Burcn's sub-treasury scheme he objected and resigned (Jan. 1840).
His strict principles and his conservatism won for him the sobriquet of " The Cato of the United States Senate. "
He was first married Elizabeth Carrick, the daughter of his mentor, Samuel. Then he married Anne Peyton in 1832.
