Alcée Labranche (1806 - 1861)

Born 1806 in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

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Died 17 Aug 1861 at about age 55 in Hot Springs, VA

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Biography

He is the son of Alexandre Labranche and Marie-Jeanne Piseros. ^[1]

Member of Louisiana House of Representatives 1831-1833 Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Texas 1837-1840 Elected to 28th Congress of the United States Graduate of the Université de Sorreze, France

Taken from http://www.lahistory.org/site29.php

"LABRANCHE, Alcée Louis, planter, congressman. Born, St. Charles Parish, La.; son of Alexandre Labranche and Marie Jeanne Piseros. Education: Université de Sorreze, France. Married Aimée Sarpy, daughter of Pierre Estang Sarpy. Children: Alcée, Victorine, and Pauline. Operated Glendale Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish. Served in Louisiana house of representatives, 1831-1833, speaker in 1833. Named U. S. chargé d'affaires in the Texas Republic and served from March 7, 1837, to June 5, 1840. Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1845). Organized Texas and Louisiana volunteers in the Mexican War. Naval officer of the port of New Orleans. Died, Hot Springs, Va., August 17, 1861; interred St. Charles Borromeo (Red Church) Cemetery, St. Charles Parish, reinterred Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. T.D.S. Sources: Notable Names in American History, 3rd ed. (1973); Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971 (1971); Stanley C. Arthur and George C. H. de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (1931; reprint ed., 1971); U. S. Dept. of State, United States Chiefs of Mission, 1778-1973 (1973)."

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Henry Le Mieux, Jul 3, 2013

• 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Year: 1850; Census Place: St Charles, Louisiana; Roll: M432_239; Page: 173A; Image: 349

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