The E. D. White Historic Site, located in Thibodaux, is the 1800s plantation home of Edward Douglass White, Sr., who was governor from 1835 to 1839, and his son, Edward Douglass White, who was appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1894 and served as chief justice from 1910 to 1921.
White House | Chicago White Sox | White | Snow White | King Edward VII | Edward I of England | Edward III of England | Edward VIII | Edward VII | The White Stripes | White American | Prince Edward Island | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Edward III | Edward | Edward Heath | Edward G. Robinson | white | Edward Albee | Edward Elgar | Edward I | black-and-white | Edward IV of England | Edward VI of England | King Edward's School, Birmingham | White Star Line | Edward Hopper | Edward Gibbon | Edward Burne-Jones | White Nile |
Elected to the 21st United States Congress, White served three terms from 1829 until his resignation in 1834.
But in United States v. Wheeler, 254 U.S. 281 (1920), Chief Justice Edward Douglass White ruled for an 8-to-1 majority that no federal law protected the freedom of movement.
Edward Douglass White (1845 - 1921), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Wyn Craig Wade has asserted that Edward Douglass White, the Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921, told Thomas Dixon "I was a member of the Klan" at the 1915 White House screening of The Birth of a Nation.
Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices White and Day.