page_title: Maunsel White
section_title: Political career and civic leadership
hierarchical_section_title: Maunsel White / Political career and civic leadership
caption_attribution_description: English: A modern-day bottle of Maunsel White's 1812 Sauce. Photo by the contributor.
context_page_description: Maunsel White was an Episcopalian Irish-American politician, merchant, and entrepreneur. He is remembered for promoting the use of peppers and peppery sauces – a brand of which his descendants still manufacture today. Although he is usually associated with New Orleans, he also resided in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, where he owned Deer Range Plantation, in addition to three other plantations, with 191 slaves in 1850.
context_section_description: In 1812 White was elected to the New Orleans City Council.
  White became a member of the city of New Orleans' Finance Committee, during which time he suggested a successful plan for making property owners pay the cost of paving streets in the rainy, semi-tropical city.  He also put forth an unsuccessful plan to protect the low-lying city from flooding.  As president of one of several railroad conventions, White labored to bring this relatively new method of transportation to Louisiana.
  Governor Henry Johnson of Louisiana appointed White one of the first board members for the newly founded University of Louisiana (not to be confused with the present-day University of Louisiana).  White often made personal donations to that institution, now known as Tulane University.
  In 1846 White was elected to the Louisiana Senate as a "Democratic-Unionist."  During his four years in office he served on the Committees of Finance and Commerce, and he often served as President Pro Tem of the Senate.
caption: A modern-day bottle of Maunsel White's 1812 Sauce.
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