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John McEnery (March 31, 1833, Petersburg, Virginia – March 28, 1891) was a Louisiana Democratic politician and lawyer who was considered by Democrats to be the winner of the highly contested 1872 election for Governor of Louisiana.
How He Became Governor: Legally elected in 1872, but not permitted to serve by Federal authorities. Career after Term: Returned to his law practice. Died: March 28, 1891 in New Orleans. In the election of 1872 John McEnery, a Democrat, faced Republican William Pitt Kellogg.
In 1872 John McEnery was elected governor in one of the most controversial and bizarre elections in Louisiana history. Though Governor Henry Clay Warmoth declared McEnery the victor, the state elections returning board split into two rival panels after the election.
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John McEnery (31 March 1833-28 March 1891) was the Democratic Governor of Louisiana from 13 January to 22 May 1873, succeeding P.B.S. Pinchback and preceding William Pitt Kellogg.
John McEnery was born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1833, and he moved to Louisiana and served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. From 1870 to 1872, he was affiliated with the Liberal Republican Party. In 1872, he was elected Governor of Louisiana in an election marred by white supremacist violence ag...
24 de mai. de 2017 · A photograph of John McEnery, a Democratic politician in Louisiana who contended after the election of 1872 that the governorship had been stolen from him by Reconstruction-era Republicans....
JOHN MCENERY was born in Petersburg, Virginia on March 31, 1833. He was educated at Hanover College in Indiana, and at Tulane University, from which he earned a law degree. During the Civil War, he served as captain of Company B, 4 th Battalion of the Louisiana
21 de abr. de 2023 · The confrontation’s origins lay in Louisiana’s troubled gubernatorial election of 1872, which pitted Democratic-Conservative “Fusion” candidates John McEnery and Davidson Bradfute Penn against a Republican ticket headed by US senator William Pitt Kellogg and Caesar Carpentier Antoine.
