Milo WHITE, Congress, MN (1830-1913)

WHITE, Milo, a Representative from Minnesota; born in Fletcher, Franklin County, Vt., August 17, 1830; attended the common schools and Bakersfield Academy; moved to Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minn., in 1855 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; chairman of the board of supervisors of Chatfield upon its organization in 1858; served in the State senate 1872-1876, 1881, and 1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed mercantile pursuits; mayor of Chatfield for several terms; member of the school board until his death in Chatfield, Minn., May 18, 1913; interment in Chatfield Cemetery.

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