Tom White
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| Born | Thomas Bruce White March 6, 1881 Oak Hill, Texas |
| 💀Died | (aged 90) El Paso, Texas (aged 90) |
| 🏫 Education | Southwestern University |
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| Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Bessie Patterson (1909–73) |
| 👶 Children | 2 |
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Thomas Bruce White Sr. (March 6, 1881 – December 21, 1971) was an American law officer and prison warden. He is known for solving the difficult Osage murder case and later being warden of Leavenworth prison in Kansas.
Biography
White was born on March 6, 1881, in Oak Hill, Texas, the son of the Travis County, Texas sheriff Robert Emmet White and Margaret White. His mother died when Thomas was six.[1][2] He attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.[2]
Leaving school early, Tom traveled the country holding various jobs in Oklahoma and California. He enlisted in the Texas Rangers from 1905 to 1909 with three of his four siblings.[1] White resigned from the Rangers and worked as a special agent for the Santa Fe Railway and the Southern Pacific Railroad until 1917. He then worked as an FBI agent until 1926. During that time he was in charge of the Houston office and was head of the Osage murder investigation where he and his team solved the difficult case.[3]
After the Osage investigation he left the Bureau and took charge as Warden of the Leavenworth prison up until 1931, when he was seriously injured after being held hostage by armed prisoners and shot in a prison escape attempt.
Afterwards, the Federal Bureau of Prisons decided he should be given a less demanding assignment and transferred him to La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution, near El Paso, Texas. After his retirement from the penitentiary system, White served on a three-man board for Texas Pardons and Parole.[1]
He was in retirement until his death on December 21, 1971.
In popular media
White is portrayed by actor Jesse Plemons in the 2023 film Killers of the Flower Moon.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Grann, David (2017). Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-385-53424-6. OCLC 953738449. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Thomas Bruce White Sr". www.tshaonline.org. Verdon R. Adams. Retrieved 2021-12-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Thomas Bruce White Sr. (1881–1971) - Find A Grave". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
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