Newton C. Blanchard

Newton Crain Blanchard ( born January 29, 1849 Rapides Parish, Louisiana, † June 22, 1922 in Shreveport, Louisiana ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, representing the state of Louisiana in both chambers of Congress and served as its governor.

After school he studied law in Alexandria. He graduated in 1870 from Tulane University. After admission as a lawyer practicing in Shreveport Blanchard. In 1879 he was a delegate at the state Assembly part for the revision of the Constitution of Louisiana.

His political career began when he moved into the U.S. House of Representatives for the Democrats in 1881. There he was up to his resignation on March 12, 1894 Chairman of the Committee on rivers and harbors. After Blanchard moved to the Senate, where he was appointed to succeed the retiring Edward Douglass White. This chamber he was a member until March 3, 1897 where he headed the committee responsible for the Mississippi. For re-election in 1896, he joined not to.

After his time in the Senate Newton Blanchard moved almost seamlessly into the next public office when he was elected associate judge on the Louisiana Supreme Court. There he remained until his retirement in 1903. Finally, he was still elected governor of his home state, where he stayed from 1904 to 1908. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In 1913 he was a member of the second time the Constitutional Convention of Louisiana, this time as its president.