Edward Douglass White grave at Oak Hill Cemetery, a historic secular cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. White was a United States senator from Louisiana from 1891 to 1894. He was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1894, and served until December 12, 1910. Appointed Chief Justice on December 12, 1910, he served until his death on May 19, 1921.