Richard Alan White

A Representative from Washington; born in Bloomington, Monroe County, Ind., November 6, 1953; B.A., Dartmouth College, 1975; attended University of Paris, Pantheon Sorbonne; J.D., Georgetown University School of Law, 1980; clerk to United States Judge Charles Clark of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; attorney; private sector jobs ranging from dock foreman to assembly line worker to grill cook; founder and director, “Books for Kids” (a literacy program); member, Queen Anne (Wash.) community council, 1986-1988; attorney; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourth and One Hundred Fifth Congresses (January 3, 1995-January 3, 1999); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixth Congress.