Scope and Content Note
The papers of Wallace Humphrey White (1877-1952) date from 1915 to 1948 and relate mainly to the period 1917-1931 when he served in Congress as representative from the Second District of Maine. This period is covered by a Departmental File of correspondence with executive agencies of the government. A Subject File and Legislative File, both of which span the period 1925-1948, pertain to matters such as radio and communications, merchant marine and maritime affairs, fisheries, conservation, tariffs, the St. Lawrence Seaway, immigration, neutrality, interstate commerce, the Passamaquoddy Tidal Project, national defense, taxes, and veterans' benefits.
Correspondence is lacking for the period 1931-1949 when White served as United States Senator. A series of scrapbooks from 1915 to 1948 contains clippings on White's activities in local and national politics. Additional series include Personal Correspondence, Pension File, Speech, Article, and Remarks File, Newspapers, and Miscellany.
Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Owen Brewster, Carrie Chapman Catt, Bainbridge Colby, Josephus Daniels, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Franklin K. Lane, Robert Lansing, and Medill McCormick.