[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2034-E2035]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING THE LIFE OF JOHN ``JACK'' WHITE

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                           HON. FRANK R. WOLF

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 28, 2009

  Mr. WOLF. Madam Speaker, I rise to share with our colleagues today 
the recent passing of John Thomas ``Jack'' White II. He died on June 7, 
2009, at the age of 84.
  Jack had a long history of service to the Virginia congressional 
delegation, starting out as a legislative assistant to my Republican 
predecessor in the 10th District, Congressman Joel Broyhill. He later 
worked for Congressmen Richard Poff and Stan Parris, and Senators 
William Scott, Harry Byrd, Sr., and John Warner, all of Virginia.
  I would like to share an obituary for Jack that ran in the Alexandria 
Gazette Packet on June 18:

          [From the Alexandria Gazette Packet, June 18, 2009]

                    John Thomas White, II, 84, Dies

       John Thomas ``Jack'' White, II, 84, a longtime senior 
     congressional aide, died June 7,

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     2009 in the early morning hours at his home in Alexandria.
       He had congestive heart failure.
       Mr. White was born in New Orleans and grew up in Baltimore, 
     Port Townsend, Wash., Norfolk, Va., and Staten Island, N.Y., 
     traveling around the country with his father, Dr. Harry F. 
     White, a physician in the United States Public Health 
     Service. His family roots in this area are deep, going back 
     to the 1600s in both Virginia and Maryland's Eastern Shore, 
     both of which he was deeply fond.
       He graduated from Curtis High School, on Staten Island, in 
     1942 and enrolled at the University of Virginia, in 
     Charlottesville. He enlisted in the Navy V-12 officer 
     training program there and under an accelerated wartime 
     curriculum, was able to complete one year of medical school 
     before being assigned to midshipmen's school at Princeton and 
     Columbia Universities and being commissioned as an ensign, 
     USNR, in 1945. He trained in destroyers and was en route to 
     his ship in the Pacific when World War II ended.
       Completing his Navy service in 1946, Mr. White returned to 
     the University of Virginia, receiving his bachelor's degree 
     in 1947. He then took a position as a detailer with Schenley 
     Pharmaceuticals, working in the Washington, D.C., 
     metropolitan area. The family has lived in Alexandria near 
     Mt. Vernon since 1947. In 1959, he became legislative 
     assistant to Congressman Joel T. Broyhill, representing the 
     10th Congressional District in Northern Virginia, commencing 
     a career on Capitol Hill that would last for some 40 years. 
     Mr. White would become a legislative and/or administrative 
     assistant to Congressmen Richard H. Poff, and Hon. Stan 
     Parris as well as to Senators William Scott, Harry Flood 
     Byrd, Sr. and Sen. John Warner, successively, all respected 
     members of the Virginia delegation.
       After leaving the Hill on Jan 31, 2000, he worked for 
     Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Newport News, Va., 
     then a subsidiary of Tenneco, Inc. now Northrop Grumman. 
     Among other accomplishments, helped that firm acquire major 
     contracts for submarines and a nuclear aircraft carrier.
       Mr. White was a passionate historian, antique collector and 
     saved several antebellum properties by restoring them--
     several in Church Hill Richmond Va., and one in Milton Del.
       Mr. White is survived by his wife, Betty Parker White, of 
     Alexandria and Milton Del.; four children, Ann Wallis White 
     of Annapolis, Md., Elizabeth Parker White of Alexandria, John 
     Thomas. White, III of Arlington, Va. and Mathews County, Va., 
     Margaret Sewell White of Halifax, Nova Scotia; a brother, 
     Col. William V.H. White, USMC (Ret) of Nokesville, Va.; four 
     grand-children; and his loyal companion Labrador retriever, 
     ``Scout.'' In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations 
     be made to Labrador Retriever Rescue--www.Lab-Rescue.com or 
     www.LabMed.org or an animal welfare organization of their 
     choice. He took great pleasure in his grandchildren and the 
     Labradors in his life. There will be a private memorial at 
     Christ Church in Old Town Alexandria, and a ceremony at the 
     family plot in Norfolk, Va.

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