Edward D. White Sr.
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Edward Douglass White (March 3, 1795 – April 18, 1847) was a 19th century American lawyer and politician who served as the tenth Governor of Louisiana and a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served five terms in Congress between 1829 and 1843 as an adherent of Henry Clay of Kentucky and the Whig Party.
Biography
White was born in Maury County, Tennessee, the illegitimate son of James White. (Although his parents apparently never married, his father acknowledged him, and the circumstances of his birth did not impede his education or future success.) James White was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from North Carolina. While a young boy, Edward moved with his father to Louisiana.
In 1815, White graduated from the former University of Nashville, afterward beginning a law practice in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, the seat of Ascension Parish, south of Baton Rouge. Ten years later, he was appointed by Governor Henry S. Johnson, also of Donaldsonville, as an Associate Judge of the New Orleans Municipal Court in 1825.
In 1834,[1] he married Catherine Sidney Lee Ringgold, daughter of Tench Ringgold, long the U.S. Marshal in the District of Columbia. Their children included Edward Douglass White Jr.
White was a slaveholder.[2]
Political career
Elected to the 21st United States Congress in 1828, White served three terms from 1829 until his resignation in 1834 after being elected as governor. He served a single term as governor from 1835 to 1839. Afterward, he was elected to the U.S. Congress again, serving two more terms from 1839 until 1843.
Lioness incident
White was among the survivors of the steamboat Lioness explosion that occurred on the Red River south of Natchitoches on May 19, 1833.
Death and burial
He died in New Orleans and was buried at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
His home in Thibodaux is now operated by the Louisiana State Museum as the Edward Douglass White Historic Site.[1]
Family
White's son Edward Douglass White Jr. was elected by the state legislature as a United States senator from Louisiana. He later was appointed as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Grover Cleveland in 1894 and as the 9th Chief Justice by President William Howard Taft in 1910.
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External links
- State of Louisiana - Biography
- Cemetery Memorial by La-Cemeteries
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- 1795 births
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- Governors of Louisiana
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- People from Maury County, Tennessee
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- Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
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