George White (21 August 1872-15 December 1953) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-OH 15) from 4 March 1911 to 3 March 1915 (succeeding James Joyce and preceding William C. Mooney) and from 4 March 1917 to 3 March 1919 (succeeding Mooney and preceding C. Ellis Moore) and Governor of Ohio from 12 January 1931 to 14 January 1935 (succeeding Myers Y. Cooper and preceding Martin L. Davey).
Biography[]
George White was born in Elmira, New York in 1872, and he attended college at Princeton before mining in the Klondike Gold Rush and settling in Marietta, Ohio to drill for oil. White served in the state house from 1905 to 1908, in the US House of Representatives from 1911 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1919, and as Governor from 1931 to 1935. He died in West Palm Beach in 1953.