He was a Labour Party MLA (member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta) from 1921 to 1935 representing Calgary.

Frederick James White was born in September 1886, at Port Credit, Ontario.

Calgary elected its MLAs in a single multi-member district through block voting in 1921.

Ross took a seat with the support of 6000 of the city's 17,000 voters that voted this time.

[2] White continued to hold his seat on Calgary city council.

White became leader of the Dominion Labor Party and led the group into the 1926 Alberta general election.

MLA Nellie McClung, being the least popular of the three, was eliminated, and White and Robert Parkyn took the two seats on the tenth vote count.

[4] In 1932 White was a delegate to the founding meeting of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

Despite being part of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the Dominion Labor Party ran in the 1935 Alberta general election.

Province-wide, Dominion Labor was wiped out, losing all seats as William Aberhart's Social Credit party made great advances.