The Political Graveyard: White family of Louisiana

PoliticalGraveyard.com

White family of Louisiana

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

James White (1749-1809) — Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., June 16, 1749. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1785; Delegate to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1786-88; member of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives, 1794; Delegate to U.S. Congress from Southwest Territory, 1794-96; district judge in Louisiana, 1804. Died in Attakapas, St. Martin Parish, La., 1809 (age about 60 years). Burial location unknown.

		Relatives: Father of Edward Douglass White (1795-1847); grandfather of Edward Douglass White (1845-1921).
		Political family: White family of Louisiana.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Edward Douglass White (1795-1847) — also known as Edward D. White — of Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La.; Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La. Born in Maury County, Tenn., March 3, 1795. State court judge in Louisiana, 1825; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1829-34, 1839-43; Governor of Louisiana, 1835-39. Catholic. Slaveowner. Died in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., April 18, 1847 (age 52 years, 46 days). Entombed at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.

		Relatives: Son of James White; father of Edward Douglass White (1845-1921).
		Political family: White family of Louisiana.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article

Edward Douglass White (1845-1921) — of Louisiana. Born near Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La., November 3, 1845. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Louisiana state senate, 1874; justice of Louisiana state supreme court, 1879-80; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1891-94; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1894-1910; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1910-21; died in office 1921. Catholic. Died, following unspecified surgery, at Garfield Hospital, Washington, D.C., May 19, 1921 (age 75 years, 197 days). Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

		Relatives: Son of Edward Douglass White (1795-1847); grandson of James White.
		Political family: White family of Louisiana.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier
		Books about Edward Douglass White: Robert Baker Highsaw, Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.

	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11145.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.