CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE LT 2nd LOUISIANA INFANTRY SENATOR GOVERNOR LETTER SIGNED !

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SAMUEL D. McENERY
(1837 - 1910)
CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE 1
st
LIEUTENANT IN “
C
” Co., 2
nd
LOUISIANA INFANTRY,
US DEMOCRATIC PARTY SENATOR FROM LOUISIANA 1897-1910,
30
th
GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA 1881-1888,
16
th
LT. GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA 1880-1881,
JUSTICE OF THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT
&
POST-CIVIL WAR DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN IN
OUACHITA PARISH
IN THE LATE 1860s
!
McEnery's
gubernatorial administration was weak because of the power wielded by Louisiana’s rogue State Treasurer Edward Austin Burke and the corrupt Louisiana State Lottery Company. In effect, during the late 1870’s and 1880s, Burke, as State Treasurer, became more powerful than McEnery, the sitting Governor of Louisiana!
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HERE’S A CIRCA 1898 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY McENERY ON “
UNITED STATES LETTERHEAD, WASHINGTON, D. C.
” LIGHT BLUE LETTERHEAD - APPEAR TO BE SOME NOTES RE SENATE BUSINESS(?)…
The document measures 5” x 8” and is in very fine
condition, save for a minimal area of paper loss at the
upper left corner of the document, and 1” inch scrapbook page section attached to the top at verso.  A
Large bold and dark signature!
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BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLE
SAMUEL D. McENERY
Samuel Douglas McEnery
(May 28, 1837 – June 28, 1910) served as the
30th Governor
of the
U.S. state
of
Louisiana
, with service from 1881 until 1888. He was subsequently a
U.S. senator
from 1897 until 1910. He was the brother of
John McEnery
, one of the candidates in the contested
1872 election
for governor.
Early life
Mrs Samuel D. McEnery
McEnery was born in
Monroe
in
Ouachita Parish
in
North Louisiana
. He attended
Spring Hill College
in
Mobile
,
Alabama
, the
United States Naval Academy
in
Annapolis
,
Maryland
, and the
University of Virginia
at
Charlottesville
,
Virginia
. In 1859, McEnery graduated from the
State and National Law School
in
Poughkeepsie
,
New York
.
McEnery served as a
lieutenant
in the
Confederate States Army
during the
Civil War
.
Career
In 1866, McEnery began practicing law in Monroe. He became active in the Democratic Party, and served as its chairman in
Ouachita Parish
. He was elected
lieutenant governor
in 1879, and became
Governor
of Louisiana in 1881 after the death of
Louis A. Wiltz
. McEnery was elected to a full term as governor in 1884, but failed to be re-elected in 1888. McEnery's administration was weak because of the power wielded by the State Treasurer
Edward A. Burke
and the
corrupt
Louisiana State Lottery Company
. Despite Louisiana's
Roman Catholic
plurality
(and majority in
Acadiana
and many of the southern parishes of the state), McEnery was the last Catholic to be elected governor prior to
Edwin Edwards
in 1972.
After losing the 1888 election, McEnery was appointed to serve as an associate justice in the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was elected to serve in the
United States Senate
in 1896, serving there until his death in 1910. While in the Senate, McEnery served on the Committee of Corporations formed in the District of Columbia and the Committee of Transportation and Sale of Meat Products.
Death
McEnery died on June 28, 1910, in
New Orleans
and was interred there at
Metairie Cemetery
.
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