Correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, legislation file, scrapbooks, printed matter, sound recording, and other papers relating chiefly to White's service as a U.S. representative (1917-1931) from Maine. Subjects include commerce, communications, conservation, fisheries, immigration, interstate commerce, maritime issues, merchant marine, military policy, national defense, neutrality, the Passamaquoddy Tidal Project, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, taxes, tariffs, and veterans' affairs. Correspondents include Newton Diehl Baker, Owen Brewster, Carrie Chapman Catt, Bainbridge Colby, Josephus Daniels, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Franklin K. Lane, Robert Lansing, and Medill McCormick.