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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaWHITE, Edward Douglass
(1845—1921)
Senate Years of Service:
1891-1894
Party:
Democrat
WHITE, Edward Douglass, (son of Edward Douglass White [1795-1847] and grandson of James White), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La., November 3, 1845; attended Mount St. Mary’s College, near Emmitsburg, Md., the Jesuit College in New Orleans, La., and Georgetown College, Washington, D.C.; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Orleans, La., in 1868; member, State senate 1874; associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana 1879-1880; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, until his resignation, effective March 12, 1894; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses (Fifty-third Congress); appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Grover Cleveland in 1894; appointed Chief Justice of the United States in 1910, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1921; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
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. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981; Klinkhammer, Marie. Edward Douglass White, Chief Justice of the United States
. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1943.
Cassidy, Lewis C. “Life of Edward Douglass White: Soldier, Statesman, Jurist, 1845-1921.” Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 1923.
Highsaw, Robert B. Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Klinkhamer, Marie Carolyn. Edward Douglass White
. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1943.
Mele, Joseph C. “Edward Douglass White’s Influence on the Louisiana Anti-Lottery Movement.” Southern Speech Journal
28 (Fall 1962): 36-43.
Miller, William Timothy. “Edward Douglass White: A Study in Constitutional History.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1933.
Ramke, Diedrich. “Edward Douglass White—Statesman and Jurist.” Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1940.
U.S. Supreme Court. Proceedings of the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States in Memory of Edward Douglass White, December 17, 1921.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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