Newton Crain Blanchard photographs, circa 1902-1903.

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Newton Crain Blanchard photographs, circa 1902-1903.

Photographs consist of one formal portrait of Blanchard and his family; two photographs of Cordelia, the Blanchard house in Boyce, La.; and one photograph of an unidentified outdoor social gathering.

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Cordelia (Boyce, La.)

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Blanchard family.

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Blanchard, Newton C. (Newton Crain), 1849-1922

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Newton Crain Blanchard was an attorney, politician, and governor born in Rapides Parish, La. He received his law degree from the University of Louisiana (now Tulane) in 1870 and began practicing law in Shreveport the following year. Blanchard was a delegate to the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1879 and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1880 where he served until 1893. From 1893 until 1897, Blanchard held the unexpired U.S. Senate seat of Edward Douglass White and from ...