Oscar Dunn
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Oscar James Dunn served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction and was the first African American to serve as lieutenant governor of a U.S. state. He was also th
Portraits of African-American delegates to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, 1868. Dunn, in the center, is pictured seated at his desk.
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