Claiborne, William C. C. 1775-1817

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Name (Latin)
Claiborne, William C. C. 1775-1817
Other forms of name
Claiborne, Guillaume C. C., 1775-1817
Claiborne, Guillermo C. C., 1775-1817
Claiborne, W. C. C. (William Charles Cole), 1775-1817
Claiborne, William Charles Cole, 1775-1817
Date of birth
1775
Date of death
1817-11-23
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Law
Public administration
Occupation
Governors
Legislators
Territorial governors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 29834128
Wikidata: Q878789
Library of congress: n 86114748
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Wikipedia description:

William Charles Cole Claiborne (c. 1773–1775 – November 23, 1817) was an American politician and military officer who served as the first governor of Louisiana from April 30, 1812, to December 16, 1816. He was also possibly the youngest member of the United States Congress in the history of the United States, although reliable sources differ about his age. Claiborne supervised the transfer of Louisiana from French to U.S. control after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, governing the "Territory of Orleans" from 1804 to 1812, the year in which Louisiana became a state. He won the first election for Louisiana's state Governor and served through 1816, for a total of thirteen years as Louisiana's executive administrator. New Orleans served as the capital city during both the colonial period and the early statehood period.

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