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Victor Rochon (March 23, 1843 - November 15, 1892) was a merchant, public official, and state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the
Louisiana House of Representatives The Louisiana House of Representatives (; ) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 4 ...
representing St. Martin Parish from 1872 to 1874 and briefly in 1875 and from 1888 to 1890. He was the son of Serile Rochon and Eliza Cadtille. He studied at
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.
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discussed the Rochon family history on a PBS show exploring
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's ancestry.


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Charles Rochon Charles Rochon (4 or 5 July 16731733) was a French colonist and was one of the four founders of modern-day Mobile, Alabama. Life and career Rochon was born in 1673 in Quebec to Simon Rochon and Mathurine Buisson in Boucherville. His mother was the ...
* Etnah Rochon Boutte * List of Louisiana Creoles *
African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern sta ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rochon, Victor 1843 births 1892 deaths African-American state legislators in Louisiana Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives People from St. Martin Parish, Louisiana Straight University 19th-century members of the Louisiana State Legislature 19th-century African-American politicians