Background
WHITE, Daniel Price was born on November 26, 1814 in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky, United States, United States. Son of William P. and Judith (Taylor) While.
Businessman congressman physician
WHITE, Daniel Price was born on November 26, 1814 in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky, United States, United States. Son of William P. and Judith (Taylor) While.
Private school, southern university.
He attended Kentucky’s Centre College and Transylvania University during the 1830s and began a medical practice in Greensburg in 1837. He soon became a well-known and successful doctor. White had three sons and a daughter by his marriage to Nancy F. Clark.
After twelve years as a doctor, he abandoned medicine for agricultural and business pursuits. White became active in local politics, and in 1847, he entered the state legislature. Reelected to many terms as a Democrat, by 1857, he had been named speaker of the House.
Although he was a secessionist, White supported Stephen A. Douglas for president in 1860. He was elected to the provisional Confederate Congress and served until 1862. He supported an invasion of Kentucky but did little else in Congress.
While returned to Kentucky when his term ended and again took up medicine. He practiced there and for a time in Tennessee throughout the remainder of the war. When the war ended, White moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he became a partner in the tobacco firm of Grover, Clark, and Company from 1867 to 1875.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.