Background
Robertson, Edward White was born on June 13, 1823 in near Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
United States representative politician
Robertson, Edward White was born on June 13, 1823 in near Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
He attended the country schools and the preparatory department of Centenary College, Jackson, Louisiana and he attended Augusta College in Kentucky, in 1842.
He was also the father of Samuel Matthews Robertson. Later, he entered Nashville University and commenced the study of law in 1845. Robertson served in the Mexican-American War in 1846 as orderly sergeant in the Second Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers.
He later graduated from the law department of the University of Louisiana in 1850.
He was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced in Iberville and East Baton Rouge Parishes before he was again elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1853. In addition, he served as the Louisiana state Auditor of Public Accounts 1857–1862.
Robertson entered the Confederate Army during the American Civil War in March 1862 as captain of a company which he had raised for the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Louisiana Infantry. Later, he resumed the practice of law in Baton Rouge.
Elected as a Democrat, he served in the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh es (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883).
In, he served as chairman, Committee on the Mississippi Levees (Forty-fifth ), and as a member Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River (Forty-sixth ). He was unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth He was elected to the Fiftieth and served from March 4, 1887, until his death. Robertson died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on August 2, 1887.
He was buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
After the war, he served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1847–1849.