Ancestry of
Edward Douglass White, Jr.

9th U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

Edward Douglass White

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• • Father of Edward Douglass White, Jr. — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • James White 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Mar 1795 
  • Birth Location:
  • Maury County, Tennessee 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Apr 1847 
  • Death Location:
  • New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Saint Joseph Cemetery, Thibodaux, Lafourche, Louisiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Catherine Sidney Lee Ringgold
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  • Child:

  Edward Douglass White Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • 10th Governor of Louisiana

    The Wikipedia entry for Edward Douglass White says that he was an illegitimate child of Dr. James White, but gives no citation as to sources.

• Sources for Edward Douglass White

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/28/2020).
  • ² Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, 2002, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 93-95.
  • ³ Tennessee Historical Magazine, 1915, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 282.
  • ⁴ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present, "White, Edward Douglass (1795-1847)", (accessed 06/29/2020).
  • ⁵ Highsaw, Robert B., Edward Douglass White: Defender of the Conservative Faith, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press (1981), 15-17.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 105.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Edward Douglass White Sr.", (accessed 06/28/2020).