Frank White | |
Jr/Sr1: | United States Senator |
State1: | Alabama |
Term Start1: | May 11, 1914 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1915 |
Predecessor1: | Joseph F. Johnston |
Successor1: | Oscar Underwood |
Office2: | Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives |
Term2: | 1875 1882-1883 |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1847 |
Birth Place: | Prairie Point, Mississippi |
Death Place: | Birmingham, Alabama |
Party: | Democratic |
Allegiance: | Confederate States of America |
Rank: | Private |
Battles: | American Civil War |
Unit: | Company F, First Mississippi Cavalry[1] |
Francis Shelley White (March 13, 1847August 1, 1922) was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. Born in Noxubee County, Mississippi, he became a lawyer and served in the Civil War. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives and then moved to Birmingham, Alabama to practice law. He was elected to fill the term left by the death of Joseph F. Johnston and served from May 11, 1914, to March 4, 1915. He did not run for reelection. His interment was located in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery.