Hugh White

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Hugh White (December 25, 1798 - October 6, 1870) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Whitestown, New York, White attended the common schools. He was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1823. He studied law but did not practice. He entered business at Chittenango in 1825 and afterwards at Rondout. Active in the building of the Michigan Southern &amp. Northern Indiana Railroad. He moved to Cohoes, New York, in 1830. He was greatly interested in the development of water power from the Mohawk River. Organized the Rosendale Cement Works.

White was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851). He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Thirtieth Congress). He resumed his business activities. He died in Waterford, New York, October 6, 1870. He was interred in Albany Rural Cemetery.

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• Hugh White at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress