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Home Town Wayne County, Tennessee
Date of Passing Nov 28, 1958
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Captain Newton H. White (an Annapolis graduate retired from the U.S. Navy, as well as a wealthy insurance company founder in Tennessee).
Captain Newton H. White, Jr., USN: Commanding Officer of Enterprise CV-6 from her commissioning on 12 May 1938 to 21 December 1938. Captain White had a long and distinguished career, serving on the USS Yorktown, the USS Lexington, and, prior to World War II, as the first commanding officer of the USS Enterprise.
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The Newton White Mansion
History
In 1939, Captain and Mrs. Newton H. White purchased land in Prince George's County with the intention of creating a model dairy farm. The farm proved to be very lucrative and the couple commissioned architect W.E. Bottomly to build a mansion on the property. During his distinguished naval career, Captain White served on the U.S.S. Yorktown and the U.S.S. Lexington.
He named the two-story brick Neo-Georgian style home and the surrounding 586 acre tract Enterprise Estate, after the U.S.S. Enterprise, the ship he commanded prior to World War II. Today the mansion is surrounded by Enterprise Golf Course and consists of six large rooms, a contemporary glass-enclosed atrium, two upstairs dressing rooms, and an outdoor brick patio with a central waterfall fountain.
Chain of Command Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely, USN, Commander, Carrier Division Two (COMCARDIVTWO, on board USS Yorktown (CV-5), during the ship's commissioning ceremonies, at Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, 30 September 1937. Standing with him is the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Ernest D. McWhorter, USN. Behind them are (from left to right): Captain Newton H. White, USN, ComCarDivTwo Chief of Staff; unidentified Commander; Lieutenant Commander Leslie E. Gehres, USN; Lieutenant Commander Harold F. Fick, USN; two unidentified officers and Lieutenant Bennett W. Wright.
