Elias Nelson White (June 26, 1826 – January 24, 1916) was an American farmer and produce dealer from Burlington, Wisconsin who spent three one-year terms (1874–1876) as a "People's Reform" member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
White was born June 26, 1826, in Lyons, New York, where he received a common school education.
He became a farmer and produce dealer; and moved from New York state to Waukegan, Illinois in 1852, and from there to Lyons in Walworth County, Wisconsin in 1860.
He was elected in 1873 as part of the "Reform" or "People's Reform" party, a coalition of Democrats, reform and Liberal Republicans, and Grangers, which secured the election of William Robert Taylor as Governor in 1873; with 1,106 votes, against 1,005 for Republican John Balloch (Republican incumbent Richard Richards was not a candidate for re-election).
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