A Louisiana state legislator (House 1872-1874 and 1879-1886, Senate 1875-1878) and wealthy Creole sugar planter, born enslaved on a plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish. Visited Blount Springs with his wife in 1884, described by a contemporary account reprinted from the New York Globe as “the first among the colored families of the South to ask for accommodation” at the resort - given a cottage in line with the resort’s others and dining in the same room as roughly 250 other guest families that season. Worked alongside Reconstruction-era Louisiana governor P.B.S. Pinchback; lost his legislative seat to a corruption accusation in 1887.
Appears in: Blount Springs.