Alexander White (Virginia)

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Alexander White (1738–September 19, 1804) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Frederick County, Virginia. He was a delegate to the Virginia Convention in 1788 that ratified the U.S. Constitution and represented Virginia in the U.S. House from 1789 to 1793. Notable party to the Compromise of 1790, arranged by Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, in which in exchange for the vote of southern representatives in favor of federal assumption of state Revolutionary War debt, northern representatives agreed to move the Capitol to the banks of the Potomac (Washington, D.C.).

White was one of the three commissioners appointed by President Washington to oversee the initial construction of Washington, D.C.. He served on this board from 1795 until it as dissolved in 1802.

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• U.S. Congress website biography

Political offices
Preceded by None	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 1st congressional district March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1793	Succeeded by Robert Rutherford