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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.
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.
The White Court, 1910-1921. When the Supreme Court reviewed the Standard Oil antitrust case in 1910, it affirmed the order but altered the law. Congress, said Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, only meant the law to punish “unreasonable” restraint of trade. White’s “rule of reason” became a rule of law. In 1914 the Supreme Court ...
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.
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.
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.
5 de abr. de 2004 · The White Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy examines the workings and legacies of the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. Through detailed discussions of landmark cases, this reference work explores the role the Court played in steering the country through an era of economic growth, racial discrimination, and international warfare.
