Ascension Parish
Louisiana
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Ascension Parish
Louisiana
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Ascension Parish
Index to Locations
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Allen Thomas (1830-1907) —
Born December
14, 1830.
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister
to Venezuela, 1895.
Died December
3, 1907 (age 76 years, 354
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Duncan Farrar Kenner (1813-1887) —
of Louisiana.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., February
11, 1813.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1836; member of Louisiana
state senate; delegate to
Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1844, 1852; Delegate
from Louisiana to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; candidate
for U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1878.
Died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., July 3,
1887 (age 74 years, 142
days).
Entombed at Ascension Catholic Cemetery.
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Joseph Aristide Landry (1817-1881) —
of Louisiana.
Born near Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La., July 10,
1817.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1840; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1851-53.
Died March 9,
1881 (age 63 years, 242
days).
Interment at Ascension Catholic Cemetery.
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John Harvey Lowery (1860-1941) —
also known as J. H. Lowery —
of Donaldsonville, Ascension
Parish, La.
Born in Plaquemine, Iberville
Parish, La., October
18, 1860.
Son of John Harvey Lowery (1834-1907) and Elizabeth (Carson) Lowery
(1835-1919).
Republican. Physician;
sugar grower;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1916
(alternate), 1920,
1940.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died, in Flint-Goodridge Hospital,
New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
25, 1941 (age 80 years, 342
days).
Interment at Ascension Catholic Cemetery.
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