Hugh Lawson White
American politician
Born on: October 30, 1773Died on: April 10, 1840
Aged: 66 years 163 days (797 months)
Birth Sign: Scorpio
Hugh Lawson White was an American politician and judge. After filling in several posts particularly in Tennessee's judiciary and state legislature since 1801, thereunder as a Tennessee Supreme Court justice, he was chosen to succeed Andrew Jackson in the United States Senate in 1825.
He became a member of the new Democratic Party, supporting Jackson's policies and his future presidential administration. However, he left the Democrats in 1836 and was a Whig candidate in that year's presidential election.
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