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Claiborne, W.C.C
Villere, Jacques Phillipe
Thibodaux, Henry S.
Dupre, Jacques
Roman, Andre B.
White, Edward D.
Mouton, Alexander
Hebert, Paul O.
Wickliffe, Robert C.
Moore, Thomas O.
Allen, Henry W.
Shepley, George F.
Hahn, Michael
Wells, James M.
Warmoth, Henry C.
Pinchback, P. B. S.
McEnery, John
Kellogg, William P.
Nicholls, Francis T.
McEnery, Samuel D.
Foster, Murphy J.
Heard, William W.
Blanchard, Newton C.
Sanders, Jared Y.
Hall, Luther Egbert
Pleasant, Ruffin G.
Parker, John M.
Fuqua, Henry Luse
Simpson, Oramel H.
Long, Huey Pierce
King, Alvin O.
Allen, Oscar K.
Noe, James A.
Leche, Richard W.
Long, Earl K.
Jones, Sam H.
Davis, James H.
Kennon, Robert F.
McKeithen, John J.

Louisiana Cemeteries presents the monuments, memorials, headstones and cemeteries of the 48 deceased Louisiana governors, from William Charles Cole Claiborne to John Julian McKeithen.  They are listed to the left in order of service.

The tremendous disparity in the memorials of Louisiana's governors can only be described with pictures.

There is  the majestic and royal remembrance provided by the state for Governor Huey Pierce Long on the state capitol grounds in Baton Rouge.

 

And there is the understated and remarkably restrained headstone of Governor Robert C. Wickliffe who is interred in his father's family plot in Bardstown, Kentucky.  Louisiana Governor Wickliffe's father was a Governor of Tennessee and is interred a few yards away under a 20 foot high memorial.  Two other family members also have tall memorials nearby.  Governor Robert C. Wickliffe has this:

 

Out of state:
 The week of July 1, 2007, I traveled to these governors grave sites, visited and took pictures:

 William Pitt Kellogg -  Arlington, Virginia
George Foster Shepley - Portland, Maine
Robert Charles Wickliffe - Bardstown, Kentucky

I also traveled to the suspected locations of these governors but did not find them:

Joshua Baker - Lyme, Connecticut
Thomas Bolling Robertson - White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
 

Unknown burial site:
Joshua Baker - Franklin Parish or Lyme, Connecticut
Armand Julie Beauvais - New Orleans or Pointe Coupee Parish
Benjamin Franklin Flanders - New Orleans or Lafayette Parish
Henry Johnson - near Valverda, La
Thomas Bolling Robertson - White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia Jacques Phillipe Villere - New Orleans St. Louis 1 or 2 Cemetery
Louis Alfred Wiltz - New Orleans St. Louis 1 or 2 Cemetery

 

Not yet visited:
Pierre Derbigny - New Orleans St. Louis No.1 Cemetery
Isaac Johnson - J. P. Smith Cemetery in West Feliciana Parish
Joseph Marshall Walker - Near Alexandria in Rapides Parish

 

Unrecognized as governors by their cemetery markers or memorials:

Jacques Dupre
Murphy James Foster
Michael Hahn
Luther Egbert Hall
Alvin Olin King
John Milliken Parker
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
John McEnery
Thomas Overton Moore
Alexander Mouton
Ruffin Golson Pleasant
Andre Bienvenu Roman
Jared Young Sanders
Oramel Hinckney Simpson
George Foster Shepley
Henry Schuyler Thibodaux
Henry Clay Warmoth
James Madison Wells
Robert Charles Wickliffe

 

Governor pages for which we have cemetery pictures but have not yet constructed the web pages include:

James Houston Davis - in progress
William Pitt Kellogg - in progress

 

Favorite References

"Along the River Road" by Mary Ann Sternberg
"The Governors of Louisiana" by Miriam G. Reeves, Sixth Edition

Favorite Biographies

 La. Secretary of State
National Governors Association

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