George H.
White served as a member of the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth United States Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901) from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District during what historian Rayford Logan has termed the nadir in race relations for the post-Reconstruction South.
Born in Rosindale, North Carolina on December 18, 1852, White graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C.
In 1877, and was admitted to the bar in 1879.
White practiced law and served as the Principal of the State Normal School of North Carolina until he entered politics in 1881, at which time he served for a year in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Four years later he served for a term in the state’s senate.
From 1886 to 1894, White worked for the second judicial district of North Carolina as solicitor and prosecuting attorney.