Claiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. It runs the length of the city, about 9.5 miles (15.3 km), beginning at the Jefferson Parish line and ending at the St. Bernard Parish line; the street continues under different names in both directions. It is called South Claiborne Avenue upriver from Canal Street and North Claiborne Avenue from Canal to St. Bernard Parish.
Claiborne Avenue at Frenchmen Street, looking upriver in 1938
First Presbyterian Church, Claiborne Avenue at Jefferson
Claiborne Avenue, looking towards still closed bridge over the Industrial Canal after Hurricane Katrina
Claiborne Avenue Bridge over the Industrial Canal
William Charles Cole Claiborne was an American politician, best known as the first non-colonial governor of Louisiana. He also has the distinction of possibly being the youngest member of the United States Congress in U.S. history, although reliable sources differ about his age.
William C. C. Claiborne