Edward Douglass White Politician

Edward Douglass White, Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States, serving 1910-1921. He was best known for formulating the Rule of Reason standard of antitrust law. He sided with the Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld the legality of state segregation to provide "separate but equal" public facilities in the United States, despite protections of the Fourteenth Amendment to equal treatment under the law. In one of several challenges to southern states' grandfather clauses, used to disfranchise black voters at the turn of the century, he wrote for a unanimous court in Guinn v. United States (1915), which struck down many Southern states' grandfather clauses.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 03, 1845
Birth place	Louisiana , Lafourche Parish Louisiana , Thibodaux Louisiana , United States
Religion	Catholic Church
Date of death	May 19, 1921
Place of death	Washington D.C. , United States
Education	Jesuit High School (New Orleans) Tulane University Georgetown University Mount St. Mary's University

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office	United States Senator Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 9th Chief Justice of the United States from Louisiana
successor	William Howard Taft Newton C. Blanchard Willis Van Devanter