WHITE, Edward Douglass (1795-1847)
Whig of Louisiana 
1st congressional district
Served in House 1829-1835 , 1839-1843
Biography
Representative from Louisiana; born in Nashville, Tenn., in March 1795; moved with his father to what is now St. Martin Parish, La., in 1799; attended the common schools, and graduated from the University of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1815; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Donaldsonville, La.; appointed judge of the city court of New Orleans and moved there in 1825; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, to November 15, 1834, when he resigned; Governor of Louisiana from 1834 to 1838; moved to Thibodaux; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); resumed the practice of his profession; also engaged as a planter; died in New Orleans, La., April 18, 1847; interment in St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, Thibodaux, La.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
