The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-04-13
HON. {. \. PIJGH ANNOUNCES.

DonaiuSonVifte LaWyet
Candidate for Associate Jus
tice OF Supreme court-Member
OF a Family Of Judges.
Through the medium of card ap-
bearing elsewhere in this issue OF
The Chief, Edward Nichols Pugh
makes formal announcement OF MS
candidacy for. the office OF associate |
Justice of the supreme court or Lou
isiana to succeed Chief Justice
Joseph M. Breaux, Of the fourth su-
preme court district, whose term Will
expire in the spring of 1914.
Mr.. Pugh is one Of Donaldsonville,s
most prominent and Influential citl-
zens. and is "a member Of dlstln-
guished family, his father having
been the late w. w. Pugh, OF WOOD
lawn plantation, Assumption parish,
and his mother Miss Josephine
Nichols, a sister of the late Chlef
Justice Francis T. Nichols. Inc
elder Mr.. #Pugh was speaker OF the
house of representatives and mem
Der of the state legislature Tor many
years, and in his day was one OF
Louisiana's leading sugar planners
and most noted citizens,
Edward Nichols Pugh was born IN
Assumption parish Aug. 81, lS49, anu
was educated at private schools ana
at the Louisiana State seminary
then located at Alexandra, OF Whlch
David r. Boyd was president, Leav-
ing that institution in 1866, Mr.. @Pugh
taught school and studied law, re
ceiying his elementary training in
the latter profession under his emil
nent uncle. Gen. Francis T. Nichols.
He passed a brilliant examination Tor
ADMISSION to the bar before had
reached his majority, and way sworn
in and licensed to practice upon at
| tanning the age OF tWenty-one.
Mr.. Pugh located in Donaldsonyllle
in 1870 for the practice of his pro-
fession, and has lived here contln-
uously for the past forty-tWo years,
residing on the site where SO many
4 of his illustrious ancestors on his
1 mothers side first saw the light OF
/ day. at the corner of Nichols avenue
and Houmas street He comes OF a
family of Judges. His grandfather,
Thomas C. Nichols, was, in lS43,
| one Of the judges of the court OF
errors and appeals in criminal cases.
the highest judicial tribunal then IN
existence, with powers similar TO lhe
present state supreme court, ahd
three of Judge Nichols sons served
on the bench, as follows: Francis
Il Il. Nichols, as chief justice OF the
supreme court, and Welman and
Thomas Nichols, as district judges
Philip Sidney Pugh, a younger
brother Of Mr.. Pugh, formerly helo
T the office of district judge at Grow
5lley, La. Should Mr.. Pugh be elected
to the aspreme court, will be thu
third celebration Of heS family t
, serve on the bench of that tribunal
Mr., Pugh endeaVored to enlist Il
1 the Confederate army at the lncep
) ton Of hostilities# between the nor '
and south in 1861, but was rejeetet
on account of his youth. He en-
s braeed the opportunity to serve n
8 country in a martial capacity at tn
. outbreak of the Spanish-Amerlcal
!. war in 1898. however, and was frs
: lieutenant of the battery Of artiller
/ which enlisted from tI1ss city unde
S the con5 1and of the Ne Capt. 3
l. / McCulloh.
81 Mr.. Pugh has always taken
= prominent part in public affairs, an
: in politics, as in the law, has bee
g uniformly successful and proved hin
self a leader Of unerring judgmeI
v and exceptional ability. While b
IT has been the head and front of man
a notable struggle, and has led hi
: friends to victory in many hart
IS fought campaign, he has neVe
i sought or desired political offic'
q and has held only honorary position
without emoluments. He served 2
= mayor of Donaldsonville some year
II ago, and is at this time the eff1c
or emit president of the parish scho'
ID board.i
nj Mr.. Pugh has made signal su
: cess of his practice of the law, an
- is regarded as one of the most lear
lg ed and astute practitioners IN tt
ye state. He is senior member OF tt
is well-knoWn law firm of Pugh & Ler
ann, the junior partner of which
- Hon. Walter Lemann, formerly OF
50 of Ascension's representatives
ic the,aS lower house of thaS Louis
v analEeneral assembly. sss
- Endowed with a keenly analytic
- mind of rare brilliance, and posses
IN ing a knowledge Of the law not e
cel7ed by the ablest jurists of al
no state, Mr.. Pugh is exceptionally We
a. qualified to adorn the bench OF Lo
isiana highest tribunal, and b
e friends, whose name are legion, a
ay confident that if elected he W
,ir prove a worthy successor to his
,is lustrious uncle, the late lament
- Nichols, and will discharge the d
q ties required Of him with the 1lg
est degree of ability and dishnctlo
an
a. +. NJ. WeIch Dead.
Of f. M. WEIGH, president Of the I
fourche Valley and Gulf Rallroa
and vice president of the New her
and Northern Railroad, died at t