Jesse White's Life

By FEMINIST

  • Birth of Jesse White

  • Jesse Attended Chicago Waller Highschool

    Now known as Lincoln Park Highschool

  • Jesse Attends Alabama State University

    Where he majored in physical education and faced segregaton. But found light in the words of his pastor Martain Luther King.

  • Jesse gets drafted into the Army

    White was drafted four days before Cubs spring training started.
    He would serve in the 101st Airborn Divison as a paratrooper.

  • The Creation of the Jesse White Tumblers

    Jesse was asked to put on a show with the kids for an opening. Jesse decided to do a tumbling show, he was a pretty good tumbler himself. Laying the foundation for what one day would become they Jesse White Tumblers.

  • Jesse serves in the Illinoise House of Representatives.

    Jesse in this run for the General Assembly ran representing the 13th district

  • Jesse White become the Cook County Recorder of Deeds

    White stepped down from the General Assembly in order to assume this position, he served in the Illinois General Assembly for 16 years.

  • Jesse White elected as Secretary of State

  • Jesse White become Secretary of State

    White decided not to be the recorder of deeds so that he could be secretary of state.

  • Initiates Teen Driver Safety Legislation

    In the first year of the strengthened legislation teen fatalities on the road dropped by 40 percent.

  • The Jesse White Community Center Opens

    The community center was named in his honor for all that he has done for our community.

  • Jesse White admitted into the Illinois High School and College Driver Association Hall of Fame

  • Jesse White becomes Illinois longest serving Secretary of State

  • Jesse reelected for Secretary of State

    This will be Jesse's last term as Secretary of State before his retirement. He will serve as Secretary of state for 22 years, the longest Secretary of State Illinois has every seen.

  • 60th Anniversary of the Jesse White Tumblers