He moved to Washington DC, possibly to be closer to his attorney, in the spring of 1889 . In June 1890, invalid pension laws for former soldiers no longer required the soldier's disability be due to injury or illness contracted on active duty and in early July, White was awarded a pension backdated to July 7, 1885.
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Whereas under previous arrangements a pensioner had to live in Australia for 20 years after reaching the age of 16 and only had portability rights in Malta, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, the new provisions allowed a person drawing a pension to take up that benefit anywhere in the world after 10 years of Australian residence in the case of an age pension and after 5 years for most invalid pensions, while no period of residence was required for widows permanently resident in Australia when their husbands died.
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He was a member of the board of education of Norwich Academy and Union Free School, and was then elected to the Fifty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1891 to September 11, 1902; while in the House he was chairman of the Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River ( Fifty-fourth Congress ) and a member of the Committees on Invalid Pensions ( Fifty-fifth Congress ) and the Judiciary ( Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses ).
