Francis WHITE, Congress, VA (1826)

WHITE Francis , a Representative from Virginia; born near Winchester, Frederick County, Va., birth date unknown; attended the common schools at Winchester; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected a member of the Virginia state house of delegates, 1794, 1809-1813, and 1818; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); member of the Virginia state senate, 1823-1824; appointed sheriff of Hampshire County, Va. (now West Virginia), on December 9, 1823, by the Governor; died in Hampshire County, on the Capon River, in November 1826.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present