During the 1933 legislative year, White served as the floor leader for the Democratic Party members of the West Virginia Senate.

White was educated at Potomac Academy and began his career in public service at the age of 16 as Deputy Clerk of Court in his father's law office.

In 1933, White was chairman of the senate's Judiciary Committee and he was also appointed to two special committees: one on economy and efficiency to study state and municipal government spending, and another to investigate the road commission's awarding of a contract for gasoline, oil, and grease to the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey over the Elk Refining Company.

[28][29][e] During the 1931 legislative session, White was a member of the West Virginia Senate Committees on the Judiciary, Finance, Roads and Navigation, Public Buildings and Humane Institutions, Immigration, and Agriculture, and also the To Examine Clerk's Office.

[30] The following legislative year in 1933, White served as the floor leader for the West Virginia Senate's Democratic Party members.

[33] Also in the 1933 legislative year, White served as a member on the Finance; Roads and Navigation; Counties, Municipal Corporations; Rules; Medicine and Sanitation; Education; Privileges and Elections; and Redistricting committees.

On January 19, 1933, White sponsored a resolution for the creation of a special committee on economy and efficiency to study state and municipal government spending.

It was further permitted to summon witnesses, examine records, and to investigate all state and local government organizations to recommend further mechanisms to affect efficiency and economy.

Under the plan, which was submitted by White, West Virginia would register its official stand on the proposed Twenty-first Amendment to end Prohibition in the United States at the federal level.

The referendum was to choose a slate of 20 "wet" and 20 "dry" candidates for delegates to a state convention, which would present its final vote on the national repeal of Prohibition.

She completed her education in Washington, D.C.[3] White and his wife Mabel had five children:[3][4] On July 3, 1915, White and his family were passengers on a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad South Branch line train, bound for the Hanging Rocks, when his wife Mabel took ill, and was taken to the Wappocomo home of Garrett Williams Parsons, where she died that same day.

[2] In addition to his church activities, he served as a master of the Masonic Lodge, and he was affiliated with the Odd Fellows, Lions Club, and the Charleston chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.

[4] In June 1935, shortly before his death, White attended his daughter Elizabeth's graduation with a Bachelor of Science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

[53] White's illness continued to worsen, and on August 14, 1935, his physician Dr. R. W. Dailey reported to the Cumberland Evening Times that he was in critical condition and unlikely to recover.