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Blanchard, Newton Crain

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Jan. 29, 1849, in Rapids Parish, La.

He received an academic education; graduated as a bachelor of laws at the University of Louisiana in 1870; and commenced practice at Shreveport, La., in 1871. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1879; was appointed a major in the state militia, and was made a trustee of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, when he was appointed United States senator to fill a vacancy, and received the election for term ending in 1897. In 1897 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana.

BLANCHARD, NOAH FARWELL, financier, manufacturer, was born Jan. 22, 1821. The firm of Blanchard, Brother and Lane became one of the largest and best known manufacturers of patent leather in the United States. He died May 11, 1881, in Newark, N. J.