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Celebrating 200 Years

The Bicentennial of the Louisiana Supreme Court

1813-2013

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Celebrating 200 years . The Bicentennial of the Louisiana Supreme Courrt 1813-2013

 

Louisiana Supreme Court Justices

1813-Present

 

Associate Justice Edward Douglass White

Edward Douglass White, Jr. (1845 – 1921)

Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1910-1921
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1894-1910
U.S. Senate, 1891-1894
Associate Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1879-1880
Louisiana Legislature, 1875-1879

 

Born in Lafourche Parish, November 3, 1845 • Served in the Confederate Army • Grandson of James White, a delegate to the Continental Congress and first judge of the Western District of the Territory of Orleans • Son of Edward D. White, U.S. House of Representatives member and Louisiana Governor • Died in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1921 • Portrait painted by Albert Rosenthal