U. S. Representative from Idaho. He moved with his parents to Clark Fork, Bonner County, Idaho, in 1890. He was educated at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington and later returned to Idaho. There he engaged in agricultural, lumbering, mining work, stock raising and was a member of the board of trustees of Clark Fork. He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1932, and 1936. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses, March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1947, chairman, Committee on Irrigation, Seventy-fourth through Seventy-eighth Congresses and Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, Seventy-ninth Congress. He was reelected to the Eighty-first Congress, serving January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951. When not a candidate for renomination he resumed his stock raising and mining interests in Washington until his death. His son Compton I. White Jr. was also a Congressman from Idaho.
U. S. Representative from Idaho. He moved with his parents to Clark Fork, Bonner County, Idaho, in 1890. He was educated at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington and later returned to Idaho. There he engaged in agricultural, lumbering, mining work, stock raising and was a member of the board of trustees of Clark Fork. He served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928, 1932, and 1936. Elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses, March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1947, chairman, Committee on Irrigation, Seventy-fourth through Seventy-eighth Congresses and Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, Seventy-ninth Congress. He was reelected to the Eighty-first Congress, serving January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1951. When not a candidate for renomination he resumed his stock raising and mining interests in Washington until his death. His son Compton I. White Jr. was also a Congressman from Idaho.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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