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Newton Blanchard was born on January 29, 1849, in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States, the son of Carey H. and Frances Amelia (Crain) Blanchard. He was reared on his father's cotton plantation.
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Newton Blanchard was born on January 29, 1849, in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States, the son of Carey H. and Frances Amelia (Crain) Blanchard. He was reared on his father's cotton plantation.
Newton was educated in private schools and the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning (now the Louisiana State University). He was granted the LL. B. degree by the University of Louisiana (now Tulane) in 1870.
Blanchard began the practise of law at Shreveport, Louisiana. He soon entered politics, and through a period of over forty years he achieved considerable success in that field. He first became prominent for the part that he took in resisting the reconstruction policy of the national government in Louisiana and, with a number of other men in Caddo Parish, he was arraigned before the federal authorities in New Orleans on the charge of intimidating the negroes from voting. Popular sentiment, however, was with them and they were acquitted. In 1879 he was elected as the representative of Caddo Parish to the Louisiana state constitutional convention and served on many of its more important committees. In 1880 he was chosen to represent the fourth Louisiana district in the Forty-seventh Congress and was reelected to the five succeeding congresses (1881 - 1893). He was chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the lower house under Speaker Crisp and was active in securing legislation for the improvement of the Mississippi levees.
In 1893 Blanchard was appointed by the governor of Louisiana, and in 1894 he was elected by the Louisiana state legislature, to the United States Senate to fill out the unexpired term of Edward Douglas White who had been appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Cleveland. As senator he was especially interested in getting such tariff legislation as would benefit Louisiana's agricultural interests. On the expiration of his term in the Senate, he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana and served in that capacity from 1897 to 1904. From this position he was elevated in 1904 by the vote of the people of the state to the governorship of Louisiana for a term of four years. At the close of his term as governor, he resumed the practise of law at Shreveport. That did not bring his public career to an end, however. In 1913 he was elected to the Louisiana state constitutional convention which had been called primarily to fund the public debt of the state, and he was chosen by that body as its president. In this position he did much to shape the work of the convention. He was a delegateat-large to several Democratic national conventions and also served several times as national Democratic committeeman for Louisiana.
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Blanchard was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 4th district from 1881 to 1894; United States Senator
from Louisiana from 1894 to 1897.
Blanchard was a man of large physique and presented a rather striking and somewhat pompous appearance. His state papers, especially his judicial decisions, were marked for their clarity of expression and intelligent comprehension of the subject in hand.
Blanchard was twice married, first, on December 16, 1873, to Emily Barret of Shreveport, who died on July 27, 1907, and second, on January 29, 1909, to Charlotte Tracy of Baton Rouge.