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Edward D. White Sr.
10th Governor of Louisiana
In office
February 4, 1835 – February 4, 1839
Preceded byAndre B. Roman
Succeeded byAndre B. Roman
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st district
In office
March 4, 1829 – November 15, 1834
Preceded byEdward Livingston
Succeeded byHenry Johnson
In office
March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843
Preceded byHenry Johnson
Succeeded byJohn Slidell
Personal details
BornEdward Douglass White, Sr.
March 3, 1795
Maury County, Tennessee
Died(1847-04-18)April 18, 1847 (aged 52)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Resting placeSt. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Thibodaux
Political partyWhig
SpouseCatherine Sidney Lee (Ringgold)
Alma materUniversity of Nashville (LL.B)

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 Continental Congress. 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, 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.

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.

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.

References

  1. Highsaw, Robert B. (March 1999). Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124284.
  2. ^ "E.D. White Historic Site - Louisiana State Museum". Archived from the original on January 17, 2015. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  3. Weil, Julie Zauzmer (10 January 2022). "More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 May 2024. Database at "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-13, retrieved 2024-04-29

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First Whig nominee for Governor of Louisiana
1834 		Succeeded byAndre B. Roman
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byEdward Livingston Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st congressional district
1829–1834 		Succeeded byHenry Johnson
Preceded byHenry Johnson Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Louisiana's 1st congressional district
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