Trasimond Landry

Trasimond Landry (born December 16, 1795 in Ascension Parish , Louisiana , † October 1, 1873 ) was an American politician . Between 1846 and 1850 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Louisiana .

Career

Trasimond Landry took part in the British-American War of 1812 as a soldier in the militia of his home country . As a planter , he ran several sugar plantations on both banks of the Mississippi . In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . Between 1824 and 1831 he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives ; In 1832 he was elected to the State Senate. Landry participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1828 and 1836, at which Andrew Jackson and later Martin Van Buren were nominated as presidential candidates.

In 1846, Landry was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana alongside Isaac Johnson . He held this office between 1846 and 1850. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. During the Civil War , Trasimond Landry was a Colonel in the Louisiana State Militia. He died on October 1, 1873.

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SURNAME	Landry, Trasimond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ascension Parish , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1873