Search results
- WILLIAM C.C. CLAIBORNE, Louisiana’s first governor, was born in Sussex County, Virginia in 1775. His education was attained at the Richmond Academy, and for a short time at William and Mary College. He later studied law, was admitted to the bar, and then established his legal career in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
www.nga.org › governor › governor-william-charles-cole-claiborneWilliam Charles Cole Claiborne - National Governors Association
› Education
College of William & Mary
- Richmond Academy
People also ask
Who was William C Claiborne?
Where did John Claiborne go to school?
Who were William Claiborne parents?
When did William C Claiborne leave office?
Who is Dr Claiborne?
How did John Claiborne become governor?
Claiborne held the office of Territorial Governor through the admission of Louisiana to the Union in 1812. Before statehood, he presided over a Legislative Council which divided Louisiana into parishes, adopted a civil code and organized a public education system.
WILLIAM C.C. CLAIBORNE, Louisiana’s first governor, was born in Sussex County, Virginia in 1775. His education was attained at the Richmond Academy, and for a short time at William and Mary College.
Claiborne was educated at Richmond Academy and briefly attended William and Mary College. Claiborne worked for the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives while studying law and in 1794 he moved to the frontier, Tennessee, to open a law practice.
May 26, 2024 · William Charles Cole Claiborne (c.1772/75 – 23 November 1817) was a United States politician, best known as the first non-colonial Governor of Louisiana. He also has the distinction of possibly being the youngest Congressman in U.S. history, though reliable sources differ about his age.
- Male
- November 3, 1817
- August 13, 1773
May 7, 2013 · Born in Virginia to a colonel in the American Revolution, Claiborne was well educated and attended William and Mary College. Reared with the example of service to the republic, Claiborne took up his first post at age fifteen in the clerk’s office of the US Congress in New York City and later in Philadelphia.
- Greater New Orleans
- Antebellum Period, U.S. Territorial Period
Dec 18, 2017 · William C.C. Claiborne accomplished a great deal in his relatively short life. But perhaps his biggest accomplishment was winning over New Orleans’ Creole population after America took over...
found: Biographical directory of the United States Congress, from 1774-present, September 6, 2021 (Claiborne, William Charles Cole (1775-1817); born 1775 in Sussex County, Va.; elected as a Democratic Republican from Louisiana to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1817, until his death, before the assembling of Congress, in New ...
