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He was awarded an honorary degree by Princeton University in 1912. White died in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 1921. This statue of Edward Douglass White was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Louisiana in 1955. White served in the U.S. Senate from 1890-1894 and on the Supreme Court from 1894 until his death in 1921.
16 de jun. de 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.
English: Edward Douglass White, Jr. (November 3, 1844 – May 19, 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States.
1 de mar. de 1999 · Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White, a ‘‘large and bearish man from Louisiana,’’ served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, first as an associate justice (1894–1910) and then as the ninth chief justice (1910–1921), White significantly influenced American public law.
Edward Douglass White was born on November 3, 1845, in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. His father died suddenly in 1847, but left his wife and five children with a prosperous sugar-beet plantation which provided them with financial security. When White was six years old, he was sent to a convent school in New Orleans.
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 with ...
