Alexandre Etienne DeClouet

Alexandre Etienne DeClouet (born June 9, 1812 in St. Martin Parish , Louisiana , † June 26, 1890 in Lafayette Parish , Louisiana) was a sugar plantation owner and Confederate politician .

Career

Alexandre and his sister Lezima grew up with their aunts and their grandmother in 1813 after the deaths of their two parents, Etienne Chevalier DeClouet and Aspasie Fusilier. During this time he attended Georgetown College in Washington and St. Joseph's College in Bardstown , Kentucky . He then traveled through France and Italy . On his return to the United States , he settled in St. Martinville , Louisiana, where he began to study law with Judge Edward Simon , but after a short time gave up to cultivate the plantation.

He held a seat in the Louisiana Senate in 1837 . In 1849 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Louisiana. He was then a delegate to the Louisiana Secession Convention in 1861 and a deputy to the Provisional Confederate Congress , of which he was a member from February 4, 1861 to February 17, 1862.

Alexandre was married to his first cousin, Louise St. Claire. The couple had 13 children together. He died in Lafayette Parish in 1890 and was buried in St. Martin de Tours Cemetery in St. Martinville.

Web links

• The Political Graveyard
• DeClouet (Alexandre E.) and Family Papers
• The Confederate War Department