Louisiana Justice Thomas Slidell, The Green Bag

Thomas Slidell (c.1807 – April 20, 1864) was chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was a brother of

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, a diplomat of the

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. He entered

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from New York and graduated in 1825. He was the

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for the Eastern District of

Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a U.S. state, state in the Deep South and South Central United States, South Central regions of the United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-smal ...

from 1837 to 1838. He was an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court for several years subsequent to 1847, and in 1855 he was appointed Chief Justice of the State. Having resigned his position on the bench, he went to Europe in 1856, for the purpose of recruiting his health, which had been impaired for a year or two, in consequence of his excessive professional labor. While abroad, mental disease developed itself, he was brought back to this country to become a patient of the

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, in

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. During the winter of 1862-3, the cloud lifted, and in most respects his perceptions became quite clear and correct; and in April, 1863, he rejoined his family, who were residing in

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, and there he remained until his death, April 20, 1864, aged 57 years. He left a widow, (formerly Miss Callender) and a son who was an officer in the national army.

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's ''Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' *
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