Allison White

A representative from Pennsylvania

• born in Pine Township, near Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania on December 21, 1816
• attended the public schools and graduated from Allegheny College, Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
• studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
• was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859)
• chair, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirty-fifth Congress)
• unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress
• engaged in the lumber and coal business at Philadelphia
• died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1886; internment in Highland Cemetary, Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania

Biography from:
United States. Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989. Bicentenial Edition. (Senate Document 100-34). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989. pp. 2036.

Original photograph by Brady. [1858]. Unmounted Proof. Available in the Penn State University Libraries, Historical Collections and Labor Archives: Charles Lanman Collection - Congressmen-Group I, P to W, Folder 4.