| | 1 | Name: | William White | | | Year Elected: | | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 4/4/1748 | | | Death Date: | 7/17/1836 | | | | | | |
William White (4 April 1748–17 July 1836) was a bishop and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Elected at the age of twenty (one of the youngest elected in the Society’s history), White was an active member throughout much of his life, culminating with his role as APS secretary between 1779 and 1783, followed with the vice presidency between 1783 and 1789. Born in Philadelphia, White grew up surrounded by future APS members. He studied theology under APS member Provost William Smith and attended class alongside APS members Thomas Coombe and Joseph Hutchins. When White traveled to London in 1772 for his ordination within the Anglican Church, he carried letters of introduction from APS member Joseph Galloway to Benjamin Franklin. In 1773, less than a year after returning to Philadelphia, White married Mary Harrison with whom he would have eight children, though only three survived past early childhood. Over the years, White’s reputation as a moderate, tolerant, and rational leader engendered respect and affection within the Philadelphia community. His diplomatic countenance in particular helped him weather the fraught position of representing the Church of England during the American Revolution. After helping to revive and reorganize the Episcopal Church following the American Revolution, he was elected Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1786 followed by his formal consecration by the Archbishop of Canterbury in London in 1787. After 1796, he became the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. With his robust health, White preached his last sermon a week before he died. Thousands in the city mourned as his funeral procession laid him to rest at Christ Church’s burying ground. (PI) | |
| 2 | Name: | Thomas White | | | Year Elected: | 1787 | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| 3 | Name: | Andrew D. White | | | Year Elected: | 1869 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Death Date: | 11/ /18 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Israel C. White | | | Year Elected: | 1878 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1848 | | | Death Date: | 11/29/27 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | David White | | | Year Elected: | 1921 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1863 | | | Death Date: | 2/7/35 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Lynn T. White | | | Year Elected: | 1968 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 3/30/87 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Morton G. White | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1972 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | May 27, 2016 | | | | | | |
Morton G. White was Philosophy and Intellectual History Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies. In his philosophy of holistic pragmatism, Dr. White tried to bridge the positivistic gulf between analytic and synthetic truth as well as that between moral and scientific belief. He maintained that philosophy of science is not philosophy enough, thereby encouraging the examination of other aspects of civilized life, especially art, history, law, politics, religion, and their relations with science. His many books include Foundations of Historical Knowledge (1965); Science and Sentiment in America (1972); The Question of Free Will (1993); and A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism (2002). His book with the late Lucia Perry White, The Intellectual versus the City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright, was first published in 1962. Dr. White received his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1942) and was honored with Columbia's Woodbridge Prize in Philosophy (1943), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1950-51) and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Prior to joining the Institute for Advanced Study as a professor in 1970, he was a member of the institute from 1953-54, 1962-63 and 1968 and served as a professor at Harvard University from 1953-70. Morton White died May 27, 2016 at the age of 99 in Skillman, New Jersey. | |
| 8 | Name: | Michael James Denham White | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 12/16/83 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Robert M. White | | | Institution: | National Academy of Engineering & University Corporation for Atmospheric Research & H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and Environment & Washington Advisory Group | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 105. Physical Earth Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | October 14, 2015 | | | | | | |
Robert M. White advises on environment, energy, climate change, and development and management of organizations and research programs for the Washington Advisory Group, of which he was one of the founders and its first president. He was president of the National Academy of Engineering from 1983-95. Previously, he was president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, U.S. Permanent Representative to the World Meteorological Organization, and the first Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Prior to government service, he founded one of the first corporations devoted to environmental science and services. | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Gilbert F. White | | | Institution: | University of Colorado | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2006 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Hayden White | | | Institution: | University of California, Santa Cruz & Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | March 5, 2018 | | | | | | |
Perhaps more than anyone since Collingwood, Hayden White has influenced the ways in which we think about historical writing. With his now classic Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe (1973) he almost single-handedly introduced the so-called "linguistic turn" into the study of historiography, showing that historical texts are decisively shaped by genre and narrative codes and that form and meaning are as inextricably entwined in history as in literature. In Germany, Holland, Italy, Great Britain and increasingly now also in Russia, Poland and Hungary, as well as in the U.S., Dr. White's work is an essential point of departure for reflection on the nature of history. He was University Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Bonsall Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University at the time of his death on March 5, 2018, at age 89.
Dr. White was the author of works such as Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe (1973) and The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (1986). | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Richard White | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
I was born in New York City, and grew up in and around Los Angeles. I attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington. I am an accidental historian inspired by my involvement in Indian fishing rights controversies in Washington in the late 1960s. One thing led to another, and my interest in Native American and Western history led me to environmental history. I have more recently become interested in memory and history and in political economy. I find it hard to specialize, and equally hard to stay within my own discipline. Maybe I just have a short attention span.
I have also found it hard to stay in one place. I have taught at Michigan State, the University of Utah, the University of Washington, and Stanford University, where I have remained largely because the university has treated me well and my wife became a born-again Californian. She has no intention of leaving.
I have always been interested in the techniques of writing history and the crafting of narratives; after receiving a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, I used the grant to co-found the Spatial History Project at Stanford and became fascinated by digital visualizations as a way to analyze and present historical data. This, in turn, has increased my interest in photography.
Although I am primarily a historian of the United States, I have written about Mexico, Canada, and France as well as Ireland. I also have an interest in New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific World but this has not, so far, led to publications. | |
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