Hays Baxter White was a U.S. Representative

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 from Kansas

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Born near Fairfield, Iowa

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, White attended the rural schools of his native county.
He engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He moved to Jewell County, Kansas

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, in 1875 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Mankato.
He taught school at Mankato in 1876.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1888-1890.
He served as member of the State senate 1900-1904.
He served as mayor of Mankato in 1914 and 1915.
He served as member of the State tax commission in 1915-1918.

White was elected as a Republican

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 to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives (Sixty-eighth

68th United States Congress

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 through Seventieth

70th United States Congress

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 Congresses).
Election unsuccessfully contested by W.H. Clark.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1928.
He died in Mankato, Kansas

Mankato, Kansas

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, September 29, 1930.
He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.