The 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1872. This was the second election to take place under the Louisiana Constitution of 1868, which established universal manhood suffrag
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John Mc Enery
Henry C. Warmoth
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Henry Clay Warmoth was an American attorney and veteran Civil War officer in the Union Army who was elected governor and state representative of Louisiana. A Republican, he was 26 years old when elect
Photo by William Kurtz, c. 1875
Henry Clay Warmoth, later in life
Warmoth with family and servants at the Magnolia Plantation in Plaquemines Parish