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William James Behan (1840-1928) —
also known as William J. Behan —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; White Castle, Iberville
Parish, La.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1840.
Republican. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; sugar
planter; merchant;
manufacturer;
grocery
business; mayor
of New Orleans, La., 1882-84; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Louisiana, 1896,
1900,
1908;
Louisiana
Republican state chair, 1900-12; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1904; postmaster at New
Orleans, La., 1909-11.
Irish
ancestry. Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, from a heart
attack, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 4,
1928 (age 87 years, 222
days).
Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl
River County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
farmer; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Author
of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization,
which advocated deportation of all Black Americans to Africa. During
the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he called on "every
red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to
keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary. And if
you don't know what that means, you are just not up to your
persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate, appalled
at his racist
views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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John Black (1800-1854) —
of Monroe, Franklin
County, Miss.; Winchester,
Va.
Born in Virginia, August
11, 1800.
School
teacher; lawyer; justice of
Mississippi state supreme court, 1826-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1832-33, 1833-38; resigned 1838; sugar cane
planter.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., August
29, 1854 (age 54 years, 18
days).
Interment at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Innis, La.
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John Nichols Boozman (b. 1950) —
also known as John Boozman —
of Rogers, Benton
County, Ark.
Born in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., December
10, 1950.
Republican. Optometrist;
business
owner; rancher; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 2001-11; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Arkansas, 2004,
2008
(delegation chair); U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 2011-.
Still living as of 2014.
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Pierre Evariste Jean Baptiste Bossier (1797-1844) —
also known as Pierre E. J. B. Bossier —
of Louisiana.
Born in Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La., March
22, 1797.
Planter; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1833-43; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1843-44; died in
office 1844.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
24, 1844 (age 47 years, 33
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Catholic
Cemetery, Natchitoches, La.
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Henry Boyce (1797-1873) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Londonderry, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), 1797.
Lawyer;
planter; circuit judge in Louisiana, 1834-39; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, 1849; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 1849-61;
resigned 1861; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1865.
Died in Boyce, Rapides
Parish, La., March 1,
1873 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Rapides
Cemetery, Pineville, La.
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Thomas Butler (1785-1847) —
of Louisiana.
Born near Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., April
14, 1785.
Lawyer;
planter; district judge in Louisiana, 1813; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1818-21.
Slaveowner.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., August
7, 1847 (age 62 years, 115
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, West Feliciana Parish, La.
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Donelson Caffery (1835-1906) —
of Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La.
Born near Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La., September
10, 1835.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; sugar
planter; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1879; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1892-93; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1892-1901; Populist candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1900.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
30, 1906 (age 71 years, 111
days).
Interment at Franklin
Cemetery, Franklin, La.
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Etienne Joseph Caire (1868-1955) —
also known as Etienne J. Caire —
of Edgard, St. John
the Baptist Parish, La.
Born in Edgard, St. John
the Baptist Parish, La., September
17, 1868.
Republican. Merchant;
pharmacist;
sugar
cane planter; banker;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1928.
Catholic.
French
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Columbus.
Died in Edgard, St. John
the Baptist Parish, La., July 16,
1955 (age 86 years, 302
days).
Entombed at St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Edgard, La.
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Thomas Withers Chinn (1791-1852) —
also known as Thomas W. Chinn —
of Baton Rouge, East Baton
Rouge Parish, La.
Born near Cynthiana, Harrison
County, Ky., November
22, 1791.
Physician;
lawyer;
sugar
cane planter; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1839-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in West Baton
Rouge Parish, La., May 22,
1852 (age 60 years, 182
days).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.;
reinterment at Live
Oaks Plantation Cemetery, Iberville Parish, La.; cenotaph at Magnolia
Cemetery, Baton Rouge, La.
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Chester Bidwell Darrall (1842-1908) —
also known as Chester B. Darrall —
of Brashear (now Morgan City), St. Mary
Parish, La.; Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La.
Born near Addison, Somerset
County, Pa., June 24,
1842.
Republican. Physician;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant;
planter; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1869-79, 1881-83;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1888.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
1, 1908 (age 65 years, 191
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Bennett Dawson (1798-1845) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., March
17, 1798.
Planter; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1834; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1830; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana, 1841-45 (2nd District 1841-43, 3rd
District 1843-45); died in office 1845; postmaster at New
Orleans, La., 1843.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Francisville, West
Feliciana Parish, La., June 26,
1845 (age 47 years, 101
days).
Interment at Grace
Episcopal Churchyard, St. Francisville, La.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Jean Noel de Beaupré Destréhan
(1754-1823) —
also known as Jean Noel Destréhan —
of Louisiana.
Born in St. Charles
Parish, La., 1754.
Merchant;
planter; member
Orleans territorial council, 1806-11; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1811; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1811-12; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1812-17.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Charles
Parish, La., 1823
(age about
69 years).
Interment at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church Cemetery, Destrehan, La.
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William Dunbar (1805-1861) —
of Alexandria,
Va.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.; St.
Bernard Parish, La.
Born in Virginia, 1805.
Democrat. Lawyer; justice of
Louisiana state supreme court, 1852-53; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1853-55; sugar cane
planter.
Slaveowner.
Died in St. Bernard
Parish, La., March
18, 1861 (age about 55
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Allen Joseph Ellender (1890-1972) —
also known as Allen J. Ellender —
of Houma, Terrebonne
Parish, La.
Born in Montegut, Terrebonne
Parish, La., September
24, 1890.
Democrat. Lawyer;
farmer; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1921; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1924-36; Speaker of
the Louisiana State House of Representatives, 1932-36; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1936,
1952;
U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1937-72; died in office 1972; member of
Democratic
National Committee from Louisiana, 1939-40.
Died in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., July 27,
1972 (age 81 years, 307
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Houma, La.
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Edward James Gay (1816-1889) —
also known as Edward J. Gay —
of Plaquemine, Iberville
Parish, La.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., February
3, 1816.
Democrat. Planter; president, Louisiana Sugar
Exchange, New Orleans; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1885-89; died in
office 1889.
Slaveowner.
Died in Iberville
Parish, La., May 30,
1889 (age 73 years, 116
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Fremont Goodwine (1857-1956) —
of Williamsport, Warren
County, Ind.; St. Joseph, Tensas
Parish, La.
Born in West Lebanon, Warren
County, Ind., May 22,
1857.
Republican. School
teacher; farmer; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1904;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1900; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1908; member of Louisiana
Republican State Central Committee, 1928-50; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1944.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Farm
Bureau.
Died August
25, 1956 (age 99 years, 95
days).
Interment at Legion Memorial Cemetery, Newellton, La.
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Relatives: Son
of James Goodwine and Sophia (Buckles) Goodwine; married to Mary
Moore. |
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John Middleton Huger (1809-1894) —
also known as John M. Huger —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C., 1809.
Sugar
cane planter; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Consul
for Turkey in New
Orleans, La., 1872-82.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
24, 1894 (age about 84
years).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Mobile, Ala.
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Alfred Briggs Irion (1833-1903) —
of Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La.
Born near Evergreen, Avoyelles
Parish, La., February
18, 1833.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate
to Louisiana secession convention, 1860; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1864-65; newspaper
editor; planter; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1879; Judge,
Louisiana Circuit Court of Appeals, 1880-84; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1885-87.
Slaveowner.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., May 21,
1903 (age 70 years, 92
days).
Interment at Baptist
Cemetery, Evergreen, La.
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Benjamin F. Lacey (b. 1867) —
of Shiloh Plantation, Issaquena
County, Miss.
Born in Louisiana, 1867.
Republican. Cotton
farmer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Mississippi, 1908.
African
ancestry.
Burial location unknown.
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John Harvey Lowery (1860-1941) —
also known as J. H. Lowery —
of Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La.
Born in Plaquemine, Iberville
Parish, La., October
18, 1860.
Republican. Physician;
sugar
grower; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Louisiana, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928,
1940.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died, in Flint-Goodridge Hospital,
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1941 (age 80 years, 342
days).
Interment at Ascension
Catholic Cemetery, Donaldsonville, La.
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Adolph Meyer (1842-1908) —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Natchez, Adams
County, Miss., October
19, 1842.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; cotton and
sugar
planter; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1891-1908; died in
office 1908.
Jewish.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 8,
1908 (age 65 years, 141
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Sampson
County, N.C., April
10, 1804.
Democrat. Planter; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1848; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1856; Governor of
Louisiana, 1860-64; delegate
to Louisiana secession convention, 1861.
Presbyterian.
At the end of the Civil War, the military governor of Louisiana
ordered his arrest
as a Confederate
leader; he fled
to Mexico and settled in Havana, Cuba. Pardoned
by President Andrew
Johnson.
Died near Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., June 25,
1876 (age 72 years, 76
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Episcopal Cemetery, Pineville, La.
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Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) —
also known as Robert C. Nicholas —
of Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., January
10, 1787.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; sugar cane
planter; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1836-41; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1845; Louisiana Superintendent of
Education, 1849-53.
Slaveowner.
Died in Terrebonne
Parish, La., December
24, 1857 (age 70 years, 348
days).
Entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans, La.
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Alexander Gordon Penn (1799-1866) —
also known as Alexander G. Penn —
of near Covington, St.
Tammany Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Patrick
County, Va., May 10,
1799.
Democrat. Planter; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1830; postmaster at New
Orleans, La., 1843-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Louisiana, 1844,
1852,
1856;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 3rd District, 1850-53; lumber mill
owner.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 7,
1866 (age 66 years, 362
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Henry Newton Pharr (1872-1966) —
Born in New Iberia, Iberia
Parish, La., July 19,
1872.
Republican. Sugar cane
planter; engineer;
manufacturer;
bank
director; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1908.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Died October
28, 1966 (age 94 years, 101
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, New Iberia, La.
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John Newton Pharr (1829-1903) —
Born March
19, 1829.
Republican. Sugar cane
planter; lumberman;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1896.
Died in Berwick, St. Mary
Parish, La., November
21, 1903 (age 74 years, 247
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, New Iberia, La.
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David M. Pipes (born c.1870) —
of Jackson, East
Feliciana Parish, La.
Born about 1870.
Merchant;
planter; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1900; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1910; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1918.
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Pipes (1841-1892) —
also known as William H. Pipes —
of Clinton, East
Feliciana Parish, La.
Born in Beech Grove Plantation, East
Feliciana Parish, La., May 20,
1841.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
planter; member of Louisiana state legislature, 1870; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1876;
Louisiana
state treasurer, 1888-92.
Presbyterian.
Died near Clinton, East
Feliciana Parish, La., July 1,
1892 (age 51 years, 42
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Francis DuBose Richardson (1812-1901) —
also known as Francis D. Richardson —
Born in Woodville, Wilkinson
County, Miss., 1812.
Planter; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1840.
Died in Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La., June 15,
1901 (age about 88
years).
Interment at Bayside Cemetery, Jeanerette, La.
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Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820) —
of Ohio.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., May 1,
1753.
Ship
captain; major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;
secretary
of Northwest Territory, 1788-98; Governor
of Mississippi Territory, 1798-1801; planter.
Died on
board ship at sea in the Gulf of
Mexico, June 3,
1820 (age 67 years, 33
days).
Interment at Gloucester
Plantation Cemetery, Natchez, Miss.
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Hubert Madison Sims (1907-1970) —
also known as Hubert M. Sims —
of Mer Rouge, Morehouse
Parish, La.
Born in Morehouse
Parish, La., July 29,
1907.
Farmer; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Morehouse
Parish Police Jury, 1952-56; member of Louisiana
state senate 29th District, 1956-60; defeated, 1952.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Morehouse
Parish, La., July 24,
1970 (age 62 years, 360
days).
Interment at Mer
Rouge Cemetery, Mer Rouge, La.
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Relatives: Son
of George Madison Sims and Mary Elizabeth (Yeldell) Sims; married 1949 to Ida
Louise Garver; father of George
Garver Sims. |
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Jacques Philippe Villere (1761-1830) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Louisiana, April
28, 1761.
Sugar
cane planter; Governor of
Louisiana, 1816-20; defeated, 1824.
Catholic.
Slaveowner.
Died in Conseil Plantation, St. Bernard
Parish, La., March 7,
1830 (age 68 years, 313
days).
Entombed at St.
Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans, La.
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George Augustus Waggaman (c.1782-1843) —
also known as George A. Waggaman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Caroline
County, Md., about 1782.
Lawyer;
sugar
cane planter; served in the U.S. Army during the War of
1812; circuit judge in Louisiana, 1818; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1830-32; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1831-35.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel, and
died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
31, 1843 (age about 61
years).
Original interment at Girod
Street Cemetery (which no longer exists), New Orleans, La.;
reinterment in 1957 at Hope
Mausoleum, New Orleans, La.
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Theodore Stark Wilkinson (1847-1921) —
also known as Theodore S. Wilkinson —
of Plaquemines
Parish, La.; New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Plaquemines
Parish, La., December
18, 1847.
Democrat. Sugar cane
planter; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 1st District, 1887-91; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1893-98; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1908; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916
(alternate).
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
1, 1921 (age 73 years, 45
days).
Interment at Metairie
Cemetery, New Orleans, La.
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