Civil War CSA Congressman. Posthumous son of Etienne DeClouet and Aspasie Fusilier, who died a few months after his birth, his grandparents became his guardians. Orphaned and reared by an aunt. Education, local schools; Georgetown College, D. C., graduated in 1829 from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky., where he was valedictorian, and his diploma presented to him by Henry Clay. After a tour of Europe, he took up study of law but gave it up to become a planter. Married on April 29, 1836 to Marie-Louise Benoit St. Clair. Children: Alexandre Etienne Desire, Alexandre Baltasar, Marie Christine, Charles Albin, Marie Arthemise, Paul Louis, Louis Gabrielle, and Marie Lorenza. Built St. John Plantation house (extant), ca. 1840. In 1837 elected to Louisiana house of representatives; elected to the state senate in 1844. In 1849. he was Whig party candidate for governor; defeated by Joseph M. Walker by a small margin. Member, Louisiana state secession convention; sent from there as one of the two top vote getters to represent Louisiana in the provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery and was signer of constitution of the Confederate States. CSA Congressman 1861-1862. Commissioned colonel of the Twenty-sixth Louisiana Regiment. Ill health forced retirement to his home in December 1862. Applied for a Presidential pardon after Appomattox under special amnesty provisions, with his good character attested to by Gov. James Madison Wells. After the war, was active in the "Redeemer" movement in the Democrat party; active in party and Reconstruction politics.
Civil War CSA Congressman. Posthumous son of Etienne DeClouet and Aspasie Fusilier, who died a few months after his birth, his grandparents became his guardians. Orphaned and reared by an aunt. Education, local schools; Georgetown College, D. C., graduated in 1829 from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky., where he was valedictorian, and his diploma presented to him by Henry Clay. After a tour of Europe, he took up study of law but gave it up to become a planter. Married on April 29, 1836 to Marie-Louise Benoit St. Clair. Children: Alexandre Etienne Desire, Alexandre Baltasar, Marie Christine, Charles Albin, Marie Arthemise, Paul Louis, Louis Gabrielle, and Marie Lorenza. Built St. John Plantation house (extant), ca. 1840. In 1837 elected to Louisiana house of representatives; elected to the state senate in 1844. In 1849. he was Whig party candidate for governor; defeated by Joseph M. Walker by a small margin. Member, Louisiana state secession convention; sent from there as one of the two top vote getters to represent Louisiana in the provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery and was signer of constitution of the Confederate States. CSA Congressman 1861-1862. Commissioned colonel of the Twenty-sixth Louisiana Regiment. Ill health forced retirement to his home in December 1862. Applied for a Presidential pardon after Appomattox under special amnesty provisions, with his good character attested to by Gov. James Madison Wells. After the war, was active in the "Redeemer" movement in the Democrat party; active in party and Reconstruction politics.
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