William White (Canadian politician)

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| name =William White

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=y|1856|4|29}}

| birth_place =Hamilton, Canada West

| death_date ={{Death date and age|1953|5|9|1856|4|29}}

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| office = Member of the Council of the Northwest Territories for Regina

| term_start = August 13, 1883

| term_end =August 12, 1885

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| successor = David Jelly

| party = Independent

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| occupation =lawyer

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William White, Q.C. (April 29, 1856 – May 9, 1953) was a Canadian politician. He served on the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories for Regina from 1883 to 1885.{{cite web | url =http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf | title =North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905 | publisher =Saskatchewan Archives | accessdate = 30 September 2007 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101028/http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf |archivedate = 28 September 2007}}

White was born in 1856 at Hamilton, Canada West, the son of Thomas White. After receiving education at the Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, he became a lawyer.{{citation|title= A political manual of the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVUvAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Charles+Marshallsay%22+AND+%22Broadview%22&pg=PA105|last=Robertson|first=John Palmerston|year=1887|publisher=The Call Printing Company|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba|accessdate=19 February 2014}} Though he served on the Northwest Territories Council as an independent as it was non-partisan, White affiliated himself later with the Conservative Party of Canada. He would practice law at Moosomin where he was also a prosecutor. He later moved to British Columbia, Yukon and England.{{Cite web |url=http://www.treherne.ca/newspaper/1920/treherne_times_1920-06-18.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-02-20 |archive-date=2016-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329185606/http://www.treherne.ca/newspaper/1920/treherne_times_1920-06-18.pdf |url-status=dead }} In 1887, he married Frances Louisa Cholerton-Hall.