Mark White (Tennessee politician)

Mark White (born March 11, 1950, Union City, Tennessee) is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. He represents House District 83, which includes Germantown, Bartlett, Cordova and portions of East Memphis.

Mark White
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
from the 83rd district
Assumed office
January 12, 2010
Preceded byBrian Kelsey
Personal details
Born (1950-03-11) March 11, 1950
Union City, Tennessee, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of Memphis (BS)
Lipscomb University

White was formerly second vice-chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Tennessee's 9th congressional district in the 2006 election. White's opponents in the general election were Democrat Steve Cohen and independent Jake Ford. It was White's first bid for elected office. White placed third with 18 percent of the vote, well behind Cohen (60 percent) and Ford (22 percent).[1] This was the worst showing for a Republican in the district since the 1950s.

White supported Rick Perry for Republican primary of the 2012 presidential election.[2]

District 83

In July 2009, Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley resigned his 31st District seat. This prompted Brian Kelsey, the then-Representative from Tennessee's 83rd State House District, to resign his post in September 2009 to run for the senate seat. A special election was triggered, with the primary to occur on December 1, the same day as the election to fill the Senate seat. Mark White won the primary in a three-candidate field, and went on to face Democrat Guthrie Castle and Independent John Andreucetti in the General Election on January 12, 2010. The final results had White leading by a very comfortable margin in the extremely low turnout election.,[3][4] White was elected to a full term in the seat later in 2010.

In 2023, White supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented.[5]

References
  1. CNN.com - Elections 2006
  2. J.R. Lind, 'More Volunteers for Perry', on NashvillePost.com, November 7, 2011
  3. Tennessee Secretary of State: Elections: Election Results
  4. Our Campaigns - TN Senate 31 Special Race - Dec 01, 2009
  5. Andone, Dakin; Young, Ryan; Simonson, Amy; Almasy, Steve. "Tennessee's Republican-led House expels 2 Democratic lawmakers over gun reform protest, fails in bid to oust a third". CNN. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
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