Albert Estopinal

Albert Estopinal

Albert Estopinal (born January 30, 1845 in St. Bernard Parish , Louisiana , †  April 28, 1919 in New Orleans , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1908 and 1919 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives ; he was also its lieutenant governor .

Career

Albert Estopinal attended both public and private schools until 1862. In January 1862 he joined during the Civil War, the army of the Confederacy in. He remained in the military until the end of the war in 1865. After the war, Estopinal worked as a commission dealer in New Orleans for several years. Most of the time he spent cultivating his Kenilworth plantation near this town.

At the same time, Estopinal began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1872 and 1876 he was sheriff's chief of police in St. Bernard Parish. From 1876 to 1880 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Louisiana ; between 1880 and 1900 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1879 and 1898 he was a delegate to meetings to revise the constitution of his state. Estopinal then held the post of lieutenant governor from 1900 to 1904 under Governor William Wright Heard . In 1908 he was chairman of the Democratic Party in Louisiana.

After the death of MP Adolph Meyer , Estopinal was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the first seat of Louisiana , where he took up his new mandate on November 3, 1908. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on April 28, 1919 . During this time the First World War fell . In 1913 the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution were passed in Congress. After a by-election, the mandate held by Albert Estopinal fell to James O'Connor .

Web links

• Albert Estopinal in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert Estopinal in the database of Find a Grave (English)