Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — FOUND A MAN AT LAST. [ARTICLE]

FOUND A MAN AT LAST.

SENATOR WHITE FOR THE SUPREME BENCH. Justice Blatchford'g Saeceseor Named by Preaident Cleveland and Confirmed by the Senate Forthwith Without Oppoeltlon—Dtaeaaed Meat In Chicago. The New Justiciary. President C leveland nominated Sen- ■ ator White, of Louisiana, to be AbsoI ciate Justice of the Supreme Court, and the nomination was at once confirmed by the Senate. Senator White is nominated to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Justice Samuel F. Blatch ford, of New York. The I President nominated White after the Senate had refused to confirm Horn- | blower and Peckham. The selection of a Justice from Louisiana is a great surprise, though it was admitted immediately after 1 eckham's nomination had been iejected that the President considsred himself entirely ires to go outside of New York State in making the appointment. Some surprise was manifested that the President went so far from New York. Edward Douirlass White will take his seat on the Supreme bench as the youngest of the justices, and, with the exception of Justices Field and Harlan, h’ will. have entered at an earlier period in life thun any of the other justices, and will have the exceptionally long term of twenty-one years to serve before retirement." He was born in the parish of La F’ourche, La., and was 48 years of age last November. He was educated at Mount St. Mary s, ! near Emmitsburg, Md„ at the Jesuit College in New Orleans, and finally at Georgetown College. He entered the (Confederate army, and after the war was admitted to the bar by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and practiced his profession during the troubled years following the reconstruction period. In ld<4 ho began his political experience as a State Senator. Lapdng into the law again he became Associate Justice Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1878, but again turning to political pursuits he was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Senator Eustis, at present Ambassador to France, taking his teat March 4, 1891. By his appointment he will leave a vacancy of full two years in his Senatorial term.