Mark White (Tennessee politician)

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Hoyt White, usually known as Mark White (born March 11, 1950, Union City, Tennessee) was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Tennessee's 9th congressional district in the 2006 election. White's opponents in the general election were Democrat Steve Cohen and independent Jake Ford.

White is the second vice-chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party and made his first run for elective office in the 2006 election. The 9th is a heavily Democratic, majority-black district which has been in Democratic hands since 1975. The Republicans have not made a truly serious bid for the seat since 1978, and most pundits believed that White faced nearly impossible odds in the election. The trend held in 2006, as White placed third with 18 percent of the vote--one of the worst showings for a Republican in the district since the 1960s--behind Cohen (60 percent) and Ford (22 percent).[1]