first state Department of Revenue Secretary in 1921, resigning in 1923, after police caught him with an African-American prostitute. Later life Following White's departure, no other African-American served in Congress until Oscar De Priest was elected from Illinois in 1928. No African-American North Carolinian was elected to Congress until Eva Clayton and Mel Watt won seats in the House of Representatives in 1992. White returned to law and entered banking, having moved his family permanently to Washington, DC, in 1900. White was wealthy with a net worth of $30,000 in 1902. In 1906 the White family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a city with a well-established African American community, then experiencing significant growth due to the Great Migration. During this time White practiced law and founded a commercial savings bank. White was a co-founder of the town of Whitesboro in southern New Jersey as a planned community developed for African Americans. He worked with prominent investors such as Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute; and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; along with two daughters of Judge Mifflin W. Gibbs: Ida Gibbs Hunt and Harriet Gibbs Marshall. White was an early officer in the National Afro-American Council, a nationwide civil rights organization created in 1898. He served several terms as one of nine national vice presidents, and was twice an unsuccessful candidate for the Council's presidency. After the Council dissolved in 1908, he became an early member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded that year. It formed a Philadelphia chapter in 1913. In 1912, White was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress from Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district, following the death of the incumbent congressman. In 1916, he became the first African American from Pennsylvania to be selected as an alternate delegate at-large to the Republican National Convention. In 1917, White was appointed assistant city solicitor for Philadelphia following the death of Harry W. Bass. White died in his home in Philadelphia in 1918, and was buried at an unmarked grave in Eden Cemetery in nearby Collingdale. His son George, Jr. (d. 1927, Pittsburgh) and daughter Mamie (d. 1974, New York City) were buried next to him. His widow Ellen White moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1920; by 1930 she married Edward W. Coston there. Legacy and honors In 2002, the town of Tarboro, where White lived during his tenure in Congress, established