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Edward Douglass White Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921) was an American politician and jurist. White, a native of Louisiana , was a U.S. Supreme Court justice for 27 years, first as an associate justice from 1894 to 1910, then as the ninth chief justice from 1910 until his death in 1921.
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Edward Douglass White 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 received.
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White served on the Court for a total of twenty-seven years, ten of them as Chief Justice. He died on May 19, 1921, at the age of seventy-five. Historical profiles documenting the personal background, plus nomination and confirmation dates of previous chief justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Edward Douglass White.
Edward Douglass White was the 9th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, succeeding Melville Weston Fuller. Having served on the Court since 1894, White was the first incumbent Associate Justice to be elevated to Chief Justice. White was nominated for Chief Justice by President William Howard Taft on December 12, 1910.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Edward D. White was the son of a slaveholding suger planter; he was born and raised in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. White traveled north to college and enrolled briefly in Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland and in Georgetown College (now Georgetown University) in ...
Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. Chief Justice Edward Douglass White joined the U.S. Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on March 12, 1894, replacing Justice Samuel Blatchford. He was elevated to Chief Justice on December 19, 1910, replacing Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller.
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.
