Edward Ladson Fishburne was a South Carolina state supreme court justice and grandson of Lieutenant Governor Merrick E. Carn.
He later entered the legal profession of his father, William Josiah Fishburne, a distinguished South Carolina lawyer.
After his father's death, he took a partner named Major Madison P. Howell, a longtime friend.
He also served as Walterboro mayor, like his grandfather, and as a state militia officer.
He was appointed to the office of associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on April 17, 1935,[2] which he held for some 19 years until 1954.