Bio: Newton Crain Blanchard, Caddo & Rapides Parish La

Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown

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Newton Crain Blanchard 
1849-1922
Party: Democrat 



Newton Crain Blanchard was  a Representative and a Senator from Louisiana;
born in Rapides Parish, La., January 29, 1849.  He completed academic studies;
studied law in Alexandria, La.and in 1868 and was graduated from the law
department of the University of Louisiana in 1870.  He was admitted to the bar
and commenced practice in Shreveport, La., in 1871 was a delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1879 and elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,
1881, until his resignation, effective March 12, 1894.  Newton Blanchard was
also chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Fiftieth through Fifty-third
Congresses); appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward D. White
and served from March 12, 1894, to March 3, 1897 and was not a candidate for
reelection.  He was chairman, Committee on Improvement of the Mississippi
River and its Tributaries (Fifty-third Congress, elected associate justice of
the supreme court of Louisiana and served from 1897 to 1903 when he resigned,
Governor of Louisiana 1904-1908 and then resumed the practice of law in
Shreveport, La.  He was member of the State constitutional convention in 1913
and served as president.

Newton Crain Blanchard  died in Shreveport, La., June 22, 1922 and is buried 
in Greenwood Cemetery.