Jean-Noël Destréhan served as Speaker of the Orleans Territorial House of Representatives from 1804 to 1806, when he was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to the Orleans Territorial Council and served as its President. Appointed again by President Madison in 1811 and again served as Orleans Territorial Council President. The Orleans Territorial Council was the legislative body of the newly-purchased future state of Louisiana, responsible for devising its Civil Code and for establishing its original civil parishes.
During the War of 1812 he served on the Committee of Defense, New Orleans.
Elected to the U. S. Senate 3 September 1812, but did not take his seat in Congress.[1]
Served in the Louisiana Senate, 1812-1817.
Jean-Noël Destréhan, son of Jean-Baptiste Destréhan de Beaupré and Jeanne Catherine Gauvret, was born in New Orleans on 12 December 1759 and baptized on 27 December 1762, one month after his mother's death, at the Church of St. Louis in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2]
He was a student in France where he lived with his aunt in Tours after his father was exiled by the Spanish. Upon his return in 1776 he and brother Jean-Baptiste Honoré Destréhan de Beaupré purchased a large plantation on the "German Coast," present-day St. Charles Parish. His brother died shortly thereafter.
On 22 January 1786, he married Marie Claudine Eléonore Robin de Logny, daughter of Robert Antoine Robin de Logny and Jeanne Dreux (who lived one plantation over), at the St. Louis Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.[3]
When his father-in-law, Robert Antoine Robin de Logny, died, Destréhan purchased the home now known as Destréhan Plantation from the estate on December 16, 1792.
Jean-Noël Destréhan died in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana in 1823,[4]
and was buried at St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery in Destrehan, Louisiana.[5]
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↑ Resigned, vacant 1 October 1812 – 8 October 1812, when successor appointed.
↑Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Volume 2, 1751-1771, Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan, eds. (Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1988) p. 91:
DESTREHAN, Jean Noel (Jean Baptiste, Ecuyer, treasurer in this colony, and Catherine DE GAUVRY, dec. Nov. 27, 1762), bcs. Dec. 27, 1762, bn. Dec. 12, 1759, s. Jean DE VAUX [@DE VEAUX], Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, captain of the regiment of Angoumois, and Marie BELLILE [@DE BELISLE], sp. DORVILLE, aide major in this city (SLC, B4, 117)
↑Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Volume 4, 1784-1790; Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan, eds. (Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1989) pp. 96 & 267.
DESTREHAN, Jean Noel (Juan Bautista, naval treasurer in the service of His Most Christian Majesty, and Juana Catarina DEGOUVRY), native of this parish, retired infantry captain in the stationary regiment of Louisiana, m. Marie Claudia Eleonor ROBIN, Jan. 22, 1786, w. Vicente LLORCA, Josef MARTINEZ (SLC, M5, 45)
ROBIN, Marie Claudia Eleonor (Roberto Antonio ROBIN DELOGNY, former militia captain, presently brevetted lieutenant in the service of His Most Catholic Majesty, and Juana DREUX), native of this parish, m. Jean Noel DESTREHAN, Jan. 22, 1786 (SLC, M5, 45)
↑ "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Estate Files, 1804-1846," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JJZH-7ZH : 4 December 2014), Jean Noël Destrehan, 1823; citing probate place Orleans Parish, Louisiana, Probate Court, New Orleans City Archives.
↑Find A Grave, database and images: accessed 29 December 2019, memorial page for Jean Noel de Beaupré Destrehan (1754–1823), Find A Grave: Memorial #64819243, citing Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic Church Cemetery, Destrehan, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA, maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8)
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