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Edward Douglass White (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for formulating the rule of reason standard of anti-trust law. Although there has been some speculation that White was in the original Ku Klux Klan, there has never been any conclusive evidence found that supports this. Chief Justice Edward Douglass White as he appeared in Harpers December 24, 1910. ...
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The grandson of U.S. Marshal Tench Ringgold and the son of Edward Douglass White, a former Governor of Louisiana, White was born in a mansion in Lafourche Parish, La. on November 3, 1845. The White family owned a large plantation that produced sugar there. The plantation grew sugar cane and refined it into a finished product. The United States Marshals Service, part of the United States Department of Justice, is the United States oldest federal law enforcement agency. ...
Tench Ringgold U.S. Marshal appointed by President James Monroe and served in the position through the first two years of the administration of Andrew Jackson. ...
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He studied at Mount St. Mary’s College, near Emmitsburg, Maryland, and the Jesuit College in New Orleans before attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. For other uses: see Mount St Marys (disambiguation). ...
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His studies at Georgetown were interrupted by the American Civil War. White returned home to Bayou La Fourche, where he enlisted as an infantryman in the army of the Confederate States of America under General Tyler and eventually made the rank of lieutenant. He was almost captured by General Godfrey Weitzel's army when they attacked Bayou La Fourche, but he evaded capture by hiding beneath hay in a barn. Later, he was assigned as an aide to General W. N. R. Begle and accompanied him to Port Hudson. Combatants Union (remaining U.S. states) Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincolnâ Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,200 Casualties KIA: 110,100 Total dead: 359,500 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 94,000 Total dead: 258,000 Wounded: 137,000+ The...
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Port Hudson had a garrison of 18,000 Confederate soldiers, but superior Union forces surrounded it. After a siege lasting weeks, the Confederate forces unconditionally surrendered. White was sent to a Mississippi prisoner of war camp. When he was paroled, he returned to the family plantation, but it lay in ruins, the canefields were barren, and most of the former slaves had left. Battle of Port Hudson Conflict American Civil War Date May 21-July 9, 1863 Place East Baton Rouge Parish and East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Result Union victory The Siege of Port Hudson occurred in 1863 when 30,000 Union Army troops surrounded the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana. ...
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While living on the abandoned plantation, White began his legal studies. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Orleans in 1868. He briefly served in the Louisiana State Senate in 1874 and as an Associate Justice in the Supreme Court of Louisiana from 1879 to 1880. He became famous in Louisiana for abolishing the Louisiana Lottery, a hotbed of corruption that was taken before the state's Supreme Court and ordered discontinued in 1894. A ticket from the February 12th, 1889 Louisiana State Lottery The Louisiana State Lottery Company was a private corporation that in the mid-19th century ran the Louisiana lottery. ...
The state's legislature appointed him to the United States Senate in 1891 to succeed J. B. Eustis. He served until his resignation on March 12, 1894, when he was nominated by President Grover Cleveland to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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In 1910, he was elevated by President William Howard Taft to the position of Chief Justice of the United States upon the death of Melville Fuller. At the time, it was a controversial appointment for two reasons. First, White was a Democrat while Taft was a Republican. The media of the day widely expected Taft to name Republican Justice Hughes to the post. Second, White was the second Associate Justice to ever be appointed Chief Justice. Some historians believe that President Taft appointed White, who was 65 years old at the time and overweight, in the hope that White would not serve all that long and that Taft himself might someday be appointed--which, in fact, is just what happened eleven years later.-1...
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 â March 8, 1930) was an American politician, the 27th President of the United States, the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, and a leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. ...
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White was generally seen as one of the more conservative members of the court. Besides being the originator of the "rule of reason", White also wrote the decision upholding the constitutionality of the Adamson Act, which had mandated a maximum eight-hour work day for railroad employees, in 1916. The Adamson Act was a United States law passed in 1916 that established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for railroad workers. ...
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He married Eleanor Kent, the widow of Linden Kent, on November 6, 1894, in New York City. White died in office and was buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ...
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Trivia
E. D. White Catholic High school in Thibodaux, LA is named after White. Thibodaux is a small city located on the banks of Bayou Lafourche in north western Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. ...
As Chief Justice he inaugurated President-elects Woodrow Wilson (twice) and Warren G. Harding.
External links - The E. D. White plantation home run by the Louisiana State Museum
Notes ↑ Paths to Distinction p157
References - "Chief Justice White is dead at age 75 after an operation." New York Times, May 19, 1921.
- "White, not Hughes, for Chief Justice." New York Times, Dec 12, 1910.
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