Louisiana Supreme Court Justices
1813-Present |
Albert Voorhies
(1829 – 1913)
Judge, Civil District Court, Orleans Parish, 1887-1892
Louisiana House of Representatives, 1876-1878
Louisiana Senate, 1872-1876
Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, 1865-1867
Associate Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, 1859-1865
Judge, Louisiana Historic Fourteenth Judicial District Court (St. Martin Parish), 1853-1859
Born in Lafayette, Louisiana • Attended Law School of Transylvania in Lexington, Kentucky • Married Marie Leontine Durand (1847) and raised 11 children in St. Martinville, Louisiana • Succeeded his father, Associate Justice Cornelius Voorhies, at the Louisiana Supreme Court • Youngest justice at age 30 • Served in Confederate Army, as Judge Advocate General for the Trans-Mississippi Dept. • Authored several compilations of Louisiana laws • Was Lieutenant Governor during the Mechanics Institute Riot, 1866 • Died in New Orleans, January 20, 1913, the same day as his son William, and is buried at St. Louis No. 3 Cemetery • Portrait painted by Andres Molinary in 1913
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