Alexander White (16 October 1816-13 December 1893) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-AL 7) from 4 March 1851 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding Franklin W. Bowdon and preceding James F. Dowdell) and from the at-large district from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1875 (preceding Burwell B. Lewis).
Biography[]
Alexander White was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1816, and he moved to Courtland, Alabama with his family, served in the US Army during the Second Seminole War, and became a lawyer in Talladega in 1837. He served in the US House of Representatives as a Whig from 1851 to 1853, and he served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War before returning to the US Congress from 1873 to 1875 as a Republican. He briefly served on the Utah Territorial Council in 1875, and he moved to Dallas, Texas in 1876 to practice law. He died there in 1893.