Background
White, Phineas was born on October 30, 1770 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.
United States representative politician
White, Phineas was born on October 30, 1770 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1797. He studied law with the Honorable Charles Marsh of Woodstock, Vermont and Judge Porter of Dummerston, Vermont.
He served as United States Representative from Vermont. Enoch White and Esther Stevens. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Pomfret, Vermont, where he resided until his death.
White married Elizabeth Stevens on July 5, 1801.
He was Register of Probate for Windsor County from 1800 to 1809, Postmaster of Putney from 1802 to 1809 and county attorney in 1813. White served as judge of Windham County in 1814, 1815 and 1817, and was chief judge of Windham County from 1818 to 1820.
White was probate judge of the district of Westminster from 1814 to 1815. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, and served from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1823.
White served as a trustee of Middlebury College, President of the Vermont Bible Society, and President of the Vermont Colonization Society.
He belonged to the Masonic Order and was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Vermont. White died on July 6, 1847 in Putney, Vermont and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery.
White was a member of the constitutional convention in 1814 and served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1815 to 1820. White was again a member of the state constitutional convention in 1836 and also served in the Vermont Senate in 1836 and 1837.