| LC control no. | n 93060855 |
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| Personal name heading | White, Edward Douglass, 1795-1847 |
| Variant(s) | White, E. D. (Edward Douglass), 1795-1847 |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Tulane Univ. Lib. (New Orleans, La.) for McDonogh, J. Papers, 1789-1869 (E.D. White; correspondent of John McDonogh about the Florida land claims controversy) A Dict. of La. biog., c1988: v. 2, p. 838, etc. (White, Edward Douglass, jurist, governor, congressman; b. Maury Co., Tenn., Mar. 3, 1795; s. of James White and Mary Wilcox White; m. Catherine Sidney Lee Ringgold (known as Sidney); their son Edward, Jr. would become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually chief justice, and their son James would become a prominent physician; Edward Douglass White, Sr. appointed judge of New Orleans city court, 1825; resigned, 1828; became a sugar planter in Lafourche Parish; elected to U.S. Congress, 1828 (Whig); governor of Louisiana, 1835-1839; returned to Congress, 1839-1843; d. New Orleans, Apr. 18, 1847) |
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