Horace White (October 7, 1865 – November 27, 1943) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was the 37th Governor of New York from October 6, 1910 to December 31, 1910.

Life

He attended Syracuse Central High School,

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

(graduated 1887), and

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(graduated 1889), and opened the firm of White, Cheney, Shinaman, and O'Neill in

Syracuse, New York Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffa ...

in the late 1880s or early 1890s. While at Cornell he was a member of

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He was a member of the

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(36th D.) from 1896 to 1907, sitting in the 119th, 120th, 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th, 128th, 129th, 130th and

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s; and participated in the drawing of the consolidation charter of the City of New York.Horace White Papers finding aid
/ref> He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1909 to 1910, elected at the

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on the

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ticket with Governor

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. Hughes resigned in October 1910 when he was appointed to the

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, and White succeeded to the governorship, remaining in office until the end of the year. White served as a trustee of Cornell University from 1916 to 1943. White, who was the nephew of Cornell's first President,

Andrew Dickson White Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator who cofounded Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricu ...

, left three-quarters of his estate to the University, and that fund had grown to $1.5 million by 1973. In White's honor, in 1973, Cornell named two

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ships after him: the first two Cornell faculty to become Horace White Professors were

Michael Fisher Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase t ...

and Jack Kiefer.2 Professors Are Named To Horace White Chairs
''Cornell Chronicle'', vol. 4, no. 19, Feb. 22, 1973. Page 3. Retrieved May 30, 2011. He was also active in Syracuse, serving as president of the

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Company and participating in numerous other civil, social, and business organizations. White once owned Fox Island in the east of

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, located in the Town of Cape Vincent. White was the last governor to come from

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until

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became Governor after the resignation of

Andrew Cuomo Andrew Mark Cuomo ( ; ; born December 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the same position that his father, Mario Cuo ...

in 2021. He was buried at Oakwood Rural Cemetery in

.Photos of burial site
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References

External links

at Syracuse University *
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at National Governors Association
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at New York State Hall of Governors {{DEFAULTSORT:White, Horace 1865 births 1943 deaths American Episcopalians Columbia Law School alumni Cornell University alumni Republican Party governors of New York (state) Lieutenant Governors of New York (state) Republican Party New York (state) state senators Politicians from Buffalo, New York Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York) Lawyers from Buffalo, New York