US Congressman, Lawyer. He was born one of six children as Chilton Allen White in Georgetown, Ohio, to John D. White (1796-1855), and his wife Margaret R. Baker White (1805-1867), on February 6, 1826. He was educated locally in the public school system and at a subscription school which was run by his father John D. White (1796-1855), where he befriended a young man named Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), who would later go onto become a great military general during the American Civil War and President of the United States of America from March 4, 1869, to March 4, 1877. He later served in Company G, First Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, during the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. Following his military service, he studied to be a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1848, and commenced to practicing law in Georgetown, Ohio. He then served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Brown County, Ohio, from 1852 to 1853. He then ran and was elected as a Member of the Ohio State Senate from 1859 to 1860. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative William Howard (1817-1891), on March 4, 1861. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Ohio's 6th District (Thirty-Seventh Congress and Thirty-Eighth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1865. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for reelection to the Thirty-Ninth Congress in 1864. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1865, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Reader Wright Clarke (1812-1872), on March 4, 1865. After his time in the United States Congress, he resumed his practice of law in Georgetown, Ohio, until his death. During the American Civil War, he opposed the use of black soldiers by the United States Army, reportedly saying that, "This is a Government of white men, made by white men for white men, to be administered, protected, defended, and maintained by white men." He also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Ohio in 1864, Delegate to the Ohio State Constitutional Convention from Brown County, Ohio, in 1873, and was an unsuccessful Candidate for the Secretary of the State of Ohio when he ran against Republican Charles Kinney (1850-1918), in 1896. The final vote tally was 525,000 for Charles Kinney and 475,462 for Chilton Allen White. He was married three times, first to Frances Boyle White (1829-1881), with whom he had three children, Edward, Minie, and Mary, then to Isabel B. Hall White in Brown, Ohio, on June 16, 1883, and lastly to Mary A. Webster Pulliam White (1824-1913), in Franklin, Ohio, on July 3, 1885. He passed away from heart-related problems due to a debilitating stroke he suffered the previous night at his home his native Georgetown, Ohio, on December 7, 1900, at the age of 74, and he was buried in Confidence Cemetery in Georgetown, Ohio, where several other famous personalities are also laid to rest.