John Baker White (Virginia), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American Military officer, lawyer, court clerk, and civil servant
Date of Birth: 04-Aug-1794
Place of Birth: Winchester, Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 09-Oct-1862
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About John Baker White (Virginia)
- John Baker White (August 4, 1794 – October 9, 1862) was a 19th-century American military officer, lawyer, court clerk, and civil servant in the U.S.
- state of Virginia. During the War of 1812, White enlisted in the United States Army as a soldier and was promoted to the military rank of ensign.
- In 1815, White was qualified as Clerk of Court for both the county and circuit courts of Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia) and he continued to hold these offices through successive appointments and elections for 46 years between 1815 and 1861.
- To date, White remains the longest-serving Clerk of Court for Hampshire County since the office's creation in 1757.
- As a prominent lawyer and court clerk, White taught jurisprudence.
- Many of White's law students later became eminent lawyers and public officials in their own right, including Henry Bedinger, United States House Representative and United States Ambassador to Denmark. During the American Civil War, White was concerned for the safety of the county's records and proceeded to load land registration records ledger books onto wagons and had them transported for safekeeping.
- Because of White's efforts, Hampshire County land records survived the war, while those records that remained in the courthouse were destroyed.
- White was threatened by occupying Union Army forces to either vacate his residence in Romney or face arrest because of his Confederate sympathies.
- White relocated to Richmond and served in the Confederate States Department of the Treasury. White was a member of the White political family of Virginia and West Virginia and was the son of prominent Virginia judge Robert White (1759–1831) and the father of West Virginia Attorney General Robert White (1833–1915) and Hampshire County Clerk of Court Christian Streit White (1839–1917).
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