James White (North Carolina politician)
James White (June 16, 1749 – October, 1809) was an American physician, lawyer, and politician.
He was an early settler at Nashville, Tennessee and in Louisiana.
He was a member of the Province of North Carolina House of Burgesses and a delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory.
In historical writings, he is usually referred to as "Dr. James White" to distinguish him from General James White, the founder of Knoxville, Tennessee.
White was born into a prosperous mercantile family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His early education was at the College of St. Omer, a Jesuit school in modern-day France (then part of the Austrian Netherlands).
When he returned he entered the University of Pennsylvania and studied medicine and law.
After graduating he moved to the Province of North Carolina.
In 1785, White was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives.
In 1786, North Carolina sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress where he served until 1788.
Late in 1786, Congress named him Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the southern department.
After that he was frequently absent from Congress, traveling the Carolina and Georgia frontiers negotiating with the Indian tribes.
After his congressional service he moved to the frontier, buying land and settling in what became Nashville, Tennessee.
When the Southwest Territory's legislature was formed in 1794, White was selected as its delegate to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1794 to 1796.
After Tennessee gained statehood in 1796, he returned home to Davidson County.
James White was a brilliant man, fluent in French and Spanish, but he had a tendency to become involved in complicated plots.
In the 1780s he had become involved with John Sevier's plan to place the State of Franklin under Spanish rule.
He used his position and travels as Indian superintendent to serve as agent conducting negotiations between Sevier and the governor of Spanish Louisiana.
In the 1790s he was involved in William Blount's plan to work with the Indians and Britain in staging an invasion of Spanish Florida.
As his role in these schemes became known, he moved to the Spanish territory of New Orleans in 1799, settling in what later became St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.
While his earlier actions caused problems in Tennessee, they weren't popularly known.
When the United States expansion reached him again President Jefferson named him as a territorial judge in 1804, initially for the District of Louisiana, and then for the Territory of Orleans.
His family prospered in Louisiana.
His son, (Edward Douglass White Sr.), was Governor of Louisiana.
His grandson, Edward Douglass White, served as Chief Justice of the United States.
James White died at home in 1809 in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
Itshak Holtz
Itshak Jack Holtz( also known as Itzhak Holtz and Issac Holtz; born 1925) is a Polish- born and an Israeli and American Orthodox Jewish painter, who is best known for his paintings and drawings that depict traditional scenes of Jewish life.
Skip Holtz
Louis Leo" Skip" Holtz Jr.( born March 12, 1964) is an American football coach who is the current head coach at Louisiana Tech University.
He was head coach at the University of South Florida from 2010 to 2012 before being released.
Prior to 2010, Holtz served as the head coach of the East Carolina University football team.
Additionally, Holtz was the head coach of the Connecticut Huskies football team between 1994 and 1998 and an assistant head coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks between 1998 and 2004.
Skip's father, Lou Holtz, is an acclaimed former head football coach and worked as a commentator on the television channel ESPN.
Due to his father's career as a collegiate football coach, Skip was exposed to football from an early age.
At the time of Skip's birth, Lou was a football assistant for the Connecticut Huskies.
Skip attended Fayetteville High School in Arkansas and played on the school's football team as the team's quarterback while his father was the head coach at the University of Arkansas.
After graduating from Fayetteville High School, Skip attended Holy Cross College for two years.
He then transferred to Notre Dame, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business management.
While at Notre Dame, he lettered in football as a special teams member and backup wide receiver.
Edward Douglass White House
The Edward Douglass White House, also known as Edward Douglass White Louisiana State Commemorative Area, is a state historic site near Thibodaux, Louisiana.
The house was home to both Edward Douglass White, Sr., the tenth governor of the state of Louisiana, and his son, Edward Douglass White, a U.S. senator and a Chief Justice of the United States.
It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its association with the latter White, whose influential decision in" Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States", while resulting in the breakup of Standard Oil, weakened the Sherman Antitrust Act by its adoption of the rule of reason.
Compton I. White
Compton Ignatius White, Sr.( July 31, 1877 – March 31, 1956), was a U.S. representative for northern Idaho.
A Democrat, he represented the Idaho's 1st congressional district and served a total of eight terms and chaired a committee.
Edward Douglass White Sr.
Edward Douglass White Sr.( March 3, 1795 – April 18, 1847) was tenth Governor of Louisiana and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
He served five non-consecutive terms in Congress, as an adherent of Henry Clay of Kentucky and the Whig Party.
White was born in Maury County, Tennessee, the illegitimate son of James White.
( Although his parents apparently never married, his father acknowledged him, and the circumstances of his birth did not impede his education or future success.)
James
White was a delegate to the Continental Congress.
While a young boy, Edward moved with his father to Louisiana.
In 1815, White graduated from the former University of Nashville, afterward beginning a law practice in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, the seat of Ascension Parish, south of Baton Rouge.
Ten years later, he was appointed by Governor Henry S. Johnson, also of Donaldsonville, as an Associate Judge of the New Orleans Municipal Court in 1825.
In 1834 he married Catherine Sidney Lee Ringgold, daughter of Tench Ringgold, long the US Marshal in the District of Columbia.
Their children included Edward Douglass White Jr. Elected to the 21st United States Congress in 1828, White served three terms from 1829 until his resignation in 1834 after being elected as governor.
He served a single term as governor( 1835 – 1839).
Afterward, he was elected to the US Congress again, serving two more terms from 1839 until 1843.
White was among the survivors of the steamboat" Lioness" explosion that occurred on the Red River south of Natchitoches on May 19, 1833.
He died in New Orleans and was buried at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
His home in Thibodaux is now operated by the Louisiana State Museum as the Edward Douglass White Historic Site.
White's son Edward Douglass White Jr. was elected by the state legislature as a United States senator from Louisiana.
He was appointed as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, later appointed 9th Chief Justice by U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Tre'Davious White
Tre'Davious White Sr.( born January 16, 1995) is an American football cornerback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League( NFL).
He played college football at LSU, where he was a consensus All- American as a senior in 2016.
He was drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White Jr.( November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), was an American politician and jurist from Louisiana.
He was a United States Senator and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States.
He served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1894 to 1921.
He is best known for formulating the" Rule of Reason" standard of antitrust law.
Born in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, White practiced law in New Orleans after graduating from the University of Louisiana.
His father, Edward Douglass White Sr., was the 10th Governor of Louisiana and a Whig US Representative.
White fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and was captured in 1865.
After the war, White won election to the Louisiana State Senate and served on the Louisiana Supreme Court.
As a member of the Democratic Party, White represented Louisiana in the United States Senate from 1891 to 1894.
In 1894, President Grover Cleveland appointed White as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1910, President William Howard Taft elevated him to the position of Chief Justice.
The appointment surprised many contemporaries, as Taft was a member of the Republican Party.
White served as Chief Justice until his death in 1921, when he was succeeded by Taft.
He was generally a conservative member of the court.
He sided with the Supreme Court majority in" Plessy v. Ferguson", 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 protection of the laws.
In one of several challenges to Southern states' grandfather clauses, used to disfranchise African- American voters at the turn of the century, he wrote for a unanimous court in" Guinn v. United States", which struck down many Southern states' grandfather clauses.
He also wrote the opinion in the" Selective Draft Law Cases", which upheld the constitutionality of conscription.
Tench Ringgold
Tench Ringgold was a businessman and political appointee in Washington, DC.
He was U.S. marshal of the District of Columbia, appointed by President James Monroe( 1817- 1825) and serving in the position through 1830, during the first two years of the administration of Andrew Jackson.
Ringgold also owned a leather factory and curing shop in Georgetown.
He was appointed Treasurer of the Georgetown Savings Institution in what was then a separate jurisdiction later annexed by the District of Columbia.
Ringgold was from a prominent early- American family that came to the British colonies in the early seventeenth century.
He had accompanied James Madison when the president and his cabinet were forced to flee Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812.
Afterward, he was named as a member of the Presidential Commission in charge of restoring important Washington buildings after the burning, including the Capitol.
In 1825 he built a house in the capital; it is now known as the Ringgold- Carroll House, referring also to a later resident.
The house has been designated as an historic property and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Boarders in the house during Ringgold's residency included Supreme Court Justices John Marshall and Joseph Story, both of whom considered Ringgold a friend.
Ringgold married and had a family.
Through his daughter Catherine, who married Edward Douglass White, Sr., he was the grandfather of Edward Douglass White, who was appointed a Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1894 and served as Chief Justice from 1910- 1921.
Ringgold owned slaves, among them was Thomas H. Ringgold, a Mulatto who was reportedly fathered by Tench.
Thomas was born in Maryland and later became a runaway slave.
Thomas married Mary E., who was born a free Black.
He then made his way to Springfield, Massachusetts via the" underground railroad," circa 1848.
There, he became a successful barber in Chicopee, MA.
In response to a newspaper notice, he returned to buy his freedom.
Using a lawyer in Alexandria, VA, he secured his freedom and returned to Massachusetts.
His wife died shortly after childbirth of their daughter, Henrietta B. S. Ringgold.
Henrietta died a few months later, that same year.
He remarried and moved, leaving his wife and two children in Springfield Cemetery, MA.
SS Edward D. White
SS" Edward D. White" was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.
She was named after Edward Douglass White, the ninth Chief Justice of the United States and a United States Senator from Louisiana.

Question: Do Skip Holtz and Edward Douglass White Sr. share the same nationality?
Answer: yes