Alfred White (politician)


Sir Alfred John White was an Australian politician.
He was born in Melbourne. In 1941 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Denison. He had a long career in Tasmanian state politics, serving as a state minister, before he resigned in 1959 to become Agent-General in London. On his retirement from that position in 1971 he was granted a knighthood. White died in Hobart in 1987. His son, John, was also a state politician.