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Article: Texas Politician John C. White, Former DNC Chairman, Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- January 21, 1995
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John C. White, 70, a former Texas agriculture commissioner whom
President Carter chose in 1978 to be chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, died Jan. 20 at Georgetown University Hospital.
He had pneumonia and kidney ailments.
Mr. White's special quality in politics was his ability to gain
the trust of different factions. In Texas, where he served 26 years
as agriculture commissioner and was the youngest person ever elected
to statewide office, he was known as a liberal, but he had excellent
relations with the dominant conservative wing of the Democratic
Party.
Robert S. Strauss, a power in the Texas party who himself was
chairman of the DNC, once described Mr. White as being "as ...