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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Mark Wells White, Jr.
|image=
|caption=
|office=43rd [[Governor]] of Texas]]
|term_start=January 18, 1983
|term_end=January 20, 1987
|predecessor=[[Bill Clements]]
|successor=Bill Clements
|office2=46th Attorney General of Texas
|governor2=Bill Clements
|term_start2=January 19, 1979
|term_end2=January 18, 1983
|predecessor2=John Luke Hill
|successor2=James Albon "Jim" Mattox
|office3=74th Secretary of State of Texas
|governor3=[[Dolph Briscoe]]
|term_start3=January 19, 1973
|term_end3=October 27, 1977
|predecessor3=V. Larry Teaver, Jr.
|successor3=George Strake, Jr.
|birth_date=March 17, 1940
|birth_place=Henderson, [[Texas]]
|death_date=August 5, 2017 (aged 77)
|death_place=[[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas
|resting_place=[[Texas State Cemetery]] in [[Austin]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Linda Gale Thompson White (married 1966-2017, his death)
|children= (1) Mark Wells White, III <br/> (2) Andrew White <br/> (3) Elizabeth Marie White-Russell
|alma_mater=[[Baylor University]]<br>
Baylor School of Law
|occupation=[[Attorney]]<br>
[[United States Army]] in [[Vietnam War]]
}}
'''Mark Wells White, Jr.''' (March 17, – August 5, 2017) was an [[United States|American]] [[lawyer]] and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] who was the 43rd [[governor]] of his native [[Texas]] from 1983 to 1987. Earlier, he was the state attorney general from 1979 to 1983 and secretary of state for Texas from 1973 to 1977.
During a slump in the [[petroleum]] industry, White unseated [[Bill Clements]] of [[Dallas]] in the 1982 gubernatorial [[general election]]. Clements had been the state's first [[Republican Party|Republican]] governor in 105 years, but since 1995, no Democrat has served as governor of the state. Governor White work to improve education, transportation, water resources, law enforcement, and promoted industrial recruitment. He appointed the Dallas businessman and later third-party presidential contender [[Ross Perot]] to head an education commission that developed the controversial "No pass, no play" rule for athletes in Texas public schools.
In the 1986 governor's race, however, Clements turned the tables on his rival White and reclaimed the office with 52.7 percent of the ballots cast. In 1990, White ran again but Clements retired. White that year lost the party's nomination to [[Ann Richards]], the outgoing state treasurer, who went on to defeat the Republican Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr. of [[Midland]].
In 1983, White played himself in an episode of [[CBS]]'s ''Dallas'' [[television]] series. Mark White Elementary School in Houston is named in his honor.
{{DEFAULTSORT:White, Mark}}
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|name=Mark Wells White, Jr.
|image=
|caption=
|office=43rd [[Governor]] of Texas]]
|term_start=January 18, 1983
|term_end=January 20, 1987
|predecessor=[[Bill Clements]]
|successor=Bill Clements
|office2=46th Attorney General of Texas
|governor2=Bill Clements
|term_start2=January 19, 1979
|term_end2=January 18, 1983
|predecessor2=John Luke Hill
|successor2=James Albon "Jim" Mattox
|office3=74th Secretary of State of Texas
|governor3=[[Dolph Briscoe]]
|term_start3=January 19, 1973
|term_end3=October 27, 1977
|predecessor3=V. Larry Teaver, Jr.
|successor3=George Strake, Jr.
|birth_date=March 17, 1940
|birth_place=Henderson, [[Texas]]
|death_date=August 5, 2017 (aged 77)
|death_place=[[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas
|resting_place=[[Texas State Cemetery]] in [[Austin]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=Linda Gale Thompson White (married 1966-2017, his death)
|children= (1) Mark Wells White, III <br/> (2) Andrew White <br/> (3) Elizabeth Marie White-Russell
|alma_mater=[[Baylor University]]<br>
Baylor School of Law
|occupation=[[Attorney]]<br>
[[United States Army]] in [[Vietnam War]]
}}
'''Mark Wells White, Jr.''' (March 17, – August 5, 2017) was an [[United States|American]] [[lawyer]] and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] who was the 43rd [[governor]] of his native [[Texas]] from 1983 to 1987. Earlier, he was the state attorney general from 1979 to 1983 and secretary of state for Texas from 1973 to 1977.
During a slump in the [[petroleum]] industry, White unseated [[Bill Clements]] of [[Dallas]] in the 1982 gubernatorial [[general election]]. Clements had been the state's first [[Republican Party|Republican]] governor in 105 years, but since 1995, no Democrat has served as governor of the state. Governor White work to improve education, transportation, water resources, law enforcement, and promoted industrial recruitment. He appointed the Dallas businessman and later third-party presidential contender [[Ross Perot]] to head an education commission that developed the controversial "No pass, no play" rule for athletes in Texas public schools.
In the 1986 governor's race, however, Clements turned the tables on his rival White and reclaimed the office with 52.7 percent of the ballots cast. In 1990, White ran again but Clements retired. White that year lost the party's nomination to [[Ann Richards]], the outgoing state treasurer, who went on to defeat the Republican Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr. of [[Midland]].
In 1983, White played himself in an episode of [[CBS]]'s ''Dallas'' [[television]] series. Mark White Elementary School in Houston is named in his honor.
{{DEFAULTSORT:White, Mark}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Texas Governors]]
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
[[Category:Lawyers]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:United States Army]]