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His father, Edward Douglass White Sr., was the 10th Governor of Louisiana and a Whig US Representative. White fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and was captured in 1865. After the war, White won election to the Louisiana State Senate and served on the Louisiana Supreme Court .
May 15, 2024 · Edward Douglass White was the ninth chief justice of the United States (1911–21), whose major contribution to U.S. jurisprudence was his “rule of reason” decision in 1911 that federal courts have since applied to antitrust cases. The son of a judge, U.S. congressman, and Louisiana governor, White.
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Edward Douglass White (March 3, 1795 – April 18, 1847) was tenth Governor of Louisiana and a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served five non-consecutive terms in Congress, as an adherent of Henry Clay of Kentucky and the Whig Party. He was a slaveholder.
Louisiana Gov. Edward Douglass White. Terms February 2, 1835 - February 4, 1839 ; Party Whig ; Born March 3, 1795 ; Passed April 18, 1847 ; Birth State Tennessee ; School University of Nashville
WHITE, EDWARD D. (1845–1921) Born and raised in Louisiana, the son of a slaveholding sugar planter and a Confederate veteran, Edward Douglass White was an archetype of the "New South" political leader. The masters of the region's economic and social development from the 1880s until world war i combined the interests of antebellum planters ...
Jun 16, 2016 · INTRODUCTION. The biography and judicial career of Edward Douglass White of Louisiana defied conventional labels. White, who lived from 1844 to 1921, was a sugar planter and Democrat from the former Confederacy initially appointed an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1894.
Situated on the banks of Bayou Lafourche, this was the residence of two of Louisiana’s significant political figures: Governor Edward Douglas White and his son, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglass White.
