[9] He broke with the party again in 1909, campaigning for independent candidate John E. White over Republican nominee Thomas Pattison in the race for the Cape District's Massachusetts Senate seat.

[10] In 1911 he led an unsuccessful effort to prohibit the exhibition of un-draped statues or pictures of the naked human form.

[13] In the 1912 United States presidential election, White backed Theodore Roosevelt for president and joined the Bull Moose Party.

[14] On November 13, 1912, Democratic Governor Eugene Foss nominated White for chairman of the newly-formed state economy and efficiency board.

[17] The nominee of the Progressive Party, White finished third with 20% of the vote to Democrat John Joseph Mitchell's 48% and Republican Alfred L. Cutting's 32%.

[18] During World War I, White was a United States Secret Service agent connected with the military intelligence sector.

[23] The government alleged that White and his businesses had secured $474,500 in loans obtained by falsely representing that he would receive $500,000 from the estate of his mother.