Chilton Allen White (6 February 1826-7 December 1900) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-OH 6) from 4 March 1861 to 3 March 1865, succeeding William Howard and preceding Reader W. Clarke.
Biography[]
Chilton Allen White was born in Georgetown, Ohio in 1826, and he befriended Ulysses S. Grant in public school before serving in the US Army during the Mexican-American War. He went on to become a lawyer in 1848, and he served as Brown County prosecuting attorney from 1852 to 1854 and in the Ohio Senate from 1859 to 1860. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1861 to 1865, and he opposed the use of African-American soldiers by the Union Army, arguing that the government was of white men, administered by white men for white men, and should be defended by white men. He died in 1900.