Thibodaux, Louisiana
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Thibodaux is a city in, and the parish seat of, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States, along the banks of Bayou Lafourche in the northwestern part of the parish. The population was 15,948 at the 2020 census. Thibodaux is a principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.
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Charles C. Elkins Hall is one of 28 sites in Thibodaux listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
St. Valérie's relics in St. Joseph Co-Cathedral
Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation "Big" House, south of Thibodaux.
Henry S. Thibodaux
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Henry Schuyler Thibodaux was a planter and politician, who served one month in 1824 as the fourth Governor of Louisiana. At the time that Governor Thomas B. Robertson resigned in 1824 to accept appointment as a federal judge, Thibodaux was President of the State Senate and succeeded him as Acting Governor, until Henry Johnson was elected.
