Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville French Period • Governor 1699-1702. • Iberville may be said to have been the founder of Louisiana. • He was commissioned by Louis.
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Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville
• • • Governor 1699-1702.
Iberville may be said to have been the founder of Louisiana. He was commissioned by Louis XIV to secure the claims of La Salle on behalf of France, and to explore and colonize the vast Louisiana Territory.
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French Period
Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville et d'Ardillières
Sauer de Sauvolve
• • • Governor 1699-1700 Sieur de Sauvolve became Acting Governor when Iberville returned to France to seek assistance for the territory. He died of yellow fever in 1701.
French Period
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
• • • • • Appointed Governor 4 separate times during 1701-1743. – – 1701-1713 1716-1717 – – 1718-1724 1733-1743 Born February 23, 1680 – Died March 7, 1767 Was a colonizer, born in Montreal, Quebec He was a younger brother of explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. Also known as Sieur de Bienville.
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French Period
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville Wikipedia
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
• • • • • • • 1710 – 1716 Governor (although he did not arrive in Louisiana until 1713).
The Cadillac automobile is named in his honor. Born in 1658 Died 1730 Founder of Detroit, Michigan.
Christened Antoine Laumet.
When he arrived in New France (Canada) in 1683 at the age of 25, he changed his identity to sieur Antoine de Lamothe-Cadillac.
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French Period
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
Jean Michiele de L'Epinay
• • • • Governor of the French colony of Louisiana from 1717 to 1718. L'Epinay served under Louis XV. His brief administration was marked by the same dissent ions as that of his predecessor. L'Epinay was removed as governor in 1718.
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French Period
Jean-Michel de Lepinay Wikipedia
Pierre Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriand
• • • Governor 1725-1726 Bienville's cousin Named interim governor by Louis XV to replace Bienville, who had been recalled to France to answer charges of malfeasance.
French Period
Pierre Sidrac, Dugue de Boisbriand
Étienne Périer
• • • Governor 1727-1733 Perier was named Governor of Louisiana to permanently replace Bienville after his recall to France. He served under Louis XV through the time of transition from colony back to royal province status until 1733 when Bienville again returned to office.
French Period
Étienne Périer
Pierre François de Rigaud
• • • Governor 1743-1753 Vaudreuil was appointed by Louis XV to succeed Bienville Served until 1753 when he left to become Governor-general of Canada.
French Period
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Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec
• • • • Governor 1753-1763 Kerlerec was appointed governor by Louis XV as a reward for 25 years of distinguished military service. Later, returned to France and was jailed in the Bastille for a time before his death in 1770. During his term, much of the Louisiana Territory was ceded to Spain by France under the secret treaty at Fountainbleu.
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French Period
Louis Billouart, Chevalier de Kerlerec
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Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie
Governor 1763-1765 Louis XV continued to direct the affairs in Louisiana because the Treaty of Fontainebleau remained secret and he appointed d'Abbadie to serve a governor. In 1765, the king informed him that Louisiana had become a Spanish province and ordered his return to France. Died shortly afterwards in New Orleans on February 4, 1765, before the Spanish occupation forces arrived.
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French Period Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie
Charles Philippe Aubry
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Governor 1765-1766 Charles Philippe Aubry served under Louis XV as transitional governor between French and Spanish regimes.
French Period
Charles Philippe Aubry
Pierre Clement de Laussat
• • • • • Served as interim governor from November 30 to December 20, 1803.
Laussat came as Napoleon's .
representative before the transfer from Spain to France. His role was to prepare for the new French governor, General Claude Victor. Within weeks, Napoleon changed his mind and ordered negotiations to sell the territory to the United States. Photos Courtesy of the State Governor's Office
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Pierre Clement de Laussat