Edward White Robertson

Edward White Robertson (June 13, 1823 – August 2, 1887) was a United States representative from Louisiana.

Robertson served in the Mexican–American War in 1846 as orderly sergeant in the Second Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers.

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.