Weldon B. White

Weldon B. White was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1961 to 1967.
Born in Waxahachie, Texas, White graduated from Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, Tennessee, and represented Davidson [County, Tennessee], in the Tennessee Senate from 1942 to 1947. He also served as a major in the United States Army during World War II, and received his LL.B. at Cumberland University in 1944. He was a professor of law at Cumberland from 1946 to 1950.
On August 1, 1961, Governor Buford Ellington appointed White to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the retirement of Pride Tomlinson. White was reelected to the remainder of his appointed term in 1962, and elected to a full eight-year term in 1966, but died the following year, at Vanderbilt University Hospital at the age of 59. He was interred at Nashville's Mount Olivet [Cemetery (Nashville)|Mount Olivet Cemetery]. White was survived by his wife, Ellen Wallace White, and two children.