Background
White, John Campbell was born on March 17, 1884 in of America parents, London, England. Son of Henry and Margaret (Rutherfurd) White.
United States Ambassador to Haiti and Peru
White, John Campbell was born on March 17, 1884 in of America parents, London, England. Son of Henry and Margaret (Rutherfurd) White.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1907. Student Harvard Law School 1 year.
Rutherfurd. With St. Paul Pioneer-Despatch, 1909, Baltimore Sun, 1910-1913. Secretary of Legation and consul general, Santo Domingo, 1914-1915. Assigned to Petrograd, 1915, to Athens, 1916, to Tokio, 1917, to Bangkok, 1918, to Warsaw, 1919, to Department of State, 1920, then successively at Caracas, Prague, Riga (counselor of Legation, 1925), again at Department of State, Washington, 1927-1928.
Counselor of Embassy, Buenos Aires, 1928-1933. Appointed counselor of Embassy, Berlin, 1933, consul general at Calcutta, India and Kabul, Afghanistan, 1935. Served as chargè d’affaires at several posts.
Foreign service officer 1st class, July 24, 1930. Diplomatic agent and counsul general at Tangier, 1940. Minister to Haiti since 1941.
Clubs: Maryland (Baltimore), Chevy Chase, Congressional, Burning Tree (Montgomery Company, Maryland), Metropolitan (Washington), Knickerbocker, Harvard (New York.
Spouse Elizabeth Moffat, April 9, 1921, N.