Henry Simmons White (July 13, 1844 – September 29, 1901) was a lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey under two presidents.

His grandfather, Esek White acquired an education in New York City where he engaged in business, in addition to running a home farm in Monmouth county.

Issac early in his life was employed as a store clerk in Shrewsbury and subsequently moved to Brooklyn, where he became one of the organizers of Lippincott & White, a wholesale grocery business.

He graduated the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City in 1864, but could not receive his diploma, because he had not yet reached the required age of 21.

In 1868 he returned to New York and entered the law department of Columbia College, because he decided that the field of jurisprudence would offer him greater opportunities and that the profession would be more congenial than that of medicine.

In 1890, White was appointed by the president the United States attorney for the district of New Jersey,[5][4][6][7] a position he held for four years.

[3][4][10] Socially, White was connected with the Masonic lodge of Red Bank and was a prominent representative of Arrowsmith Post, No.