he was supporting former Governor Taylor. He announced his campaign after all of the other candidates, including Taylor, withdrew from the primary. Brown managed White's campaign. White lost the election to Democratic Governor Austin Peay. Death White died on February 14, 1951, due to a heart attack in Dayton, Tennessee, and was buried on February 18. A resolution by Shadow to mourn his death was passed by the Tennessee legislature. Political positions White supported the prohibition of alcohol. He proposed legislation in 1909 to make campaign expenses public. In 1936, White supported the creation of $30 () per month pension for old people. He proposed legislation to allocate $100,000 to create a printing facility in order to make textbooks free for elementary students. White supported efforts to repeal poll taxes. White supported women's suffrage and called for Republicans in the Tennessee state legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. In 1943, he called for a convention to create a new state constitution which would eliminate the poll tax, lower the voting age to 18, creation of an income tax, four-year terms for all non-judicial officials, all elections held with the presidential election, and a requirement that all rulings from the state supreme court be unanimous. White opposed the convict leasing system. In 1933, he proposed legislation to make ransom kidnapping punishable by death in response to the Lindbergh kidnapping. He proposed legislation to prohibit the usage of the death penalty on people under 21. White was against evolution, sent a letter to U.S. Representative J. Will Taylor asking him to introduce legislation to deny funding to schools that taught evolution, and wrote anti-evolution legislation for William David Upshaw. Electoral history References Works cited 1881 births 1951 deaths Tennessee Republicans Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives People from Meigs County, Tennessee University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alumni Valparaiso University alumni Cumberland University alumni Southern University Law Center alumni American school administrators American lawyers American teachers Tennessee state senators