Lucius Jacques Dupré (April 18, 1822 – March 5, 1869) was a prominent
Confederate
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politician during the
American Civil War
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.
He was born in
St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana
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, and served as a state court judge in 1853. He was a delegate to the
Louisiana secession convention and served in the
Confederate States Army
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. He later represented the state in the
First Confederate Congress
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and the
Second Confederate Congress
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from 1862 to 1865.
Following the collapse of the Confederacy in the spring of 1865, he returned to Louisiana. He died four years later.
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1822 births
1869 deaths
Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Louisiana
People from St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Louisiana lawyers
Louisiana Democrats
19th-century American lawyers
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