Doug White of

Manchester, Ohio Manchester is a village in Manchester Township, Adams County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 2,023 at the 2010 census. History The community was originally founded in 1790 as Massie's Station for Nathaniel Ma ...

, is an American politician of the Republican Party party who was president of the Ohio Senate for two years, from 2003 to 2005. An Adams County Commissioner from 1985-1990, White opted to run against the

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Harry Mallott in 1990 for a seat in the

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. He was successful in his run, and was seated in 1991. He won re-election in 1992 and 1994. By 1996, Senator Cooper Snyder announced his retirement from the

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after 17 years. Subsequently, White announced his candidacy for the seat. Ultimately Snyder resigned early, allowing the Senate Republicans to appoint White to the seat early, which they did. After the 2002 elections, the Republicans of the Ohio Senate selected White to succeed Richard Finan as leader of the party. By 2004, however, White had already served two terms in the Senate and

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law prevented him from running again. Thus, in the 2004 election,

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took White's seat and Bill Harris was chosen to be the next Senate president. After his service in the Senate, White was director of the

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in the cabinet of Republican

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