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This National Historic Landmark, situated on the banks of scenic Bayou Lafourche near Thibodaux, was the residence of two of Louisiana’s foremost political figures: Edward Douglas White, who was governor from 1835 to 1839, and his son, Edward Douglass White, who was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1894 and served as chief justice from 1910 to 1921.
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.
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.
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 .
Address of the Late Chief Justice Edward D. White of the United States Supreme Court at the Annual Dinner of the American Bar Association, Sept. 5, 1919. MR. PRESIDENT: It is a privilege to be with you tonight, a participant in this annual banquet, but it is a pleasure not without its pang, for as I look upon those who are here as sembled, ah, me!
