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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.
William Charles Cole Claiborne II was the 13th Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a position he held from 1841 to 1843. He represented Orleans Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives .
His eldest son, William Claiborne Jr.(ca. 1636 – before 1678), who in the 1650s was a merchant on his father's behalf in England and served as a burgess in the following decade (1660-1678) as well as on the court to try members of Bacon's Rebellion, inherited his father's Romancoke plantation and other lands, but died before 1678. [47]
By 1896, little remained of the once-extensive plantation, which archeologists explored in the 1980s before the current residential development. William Cole's grave slab remains in a residential front yard; the graves of his second and third wives, and a pit house, were also unearthed and explored during those excavations. [8]
Claiborne lamented in a June 17, 1807, letter to President Thomas Jefferson, “My dear sir, I continue confined to my room, and experience considerable pain—but the wound now suppurates profusely and my Surgeon gives me reason to believe that in 3 weeks I shall be enabled to walk—I fear however that the warmth of the weather will ...
He was a great-grandson of U.S. Representative John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, and great-great-grandnephew of William Charles Cole Claiborne and Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne. [1] Through his mother and maternal grandparents, James Powell Kernochan and Catherine (née Lorillard) Kernochan , the daughter of Pierre Lorillard III , he inherited a ...
Romancoke is an unincorporated community in King William County, Virginia, United States. [1] Romancoke was a plantation initially developed by William Claiborne in the 17th century, and inherited by his burgess sons William Claiborne Jr. then Thomas Claiborne.
Thomas West of West Point (circa 1704–1743) was a Virginia planter who like his father Captain Thomas West represented his native King William in the House of Burgesses, but only for the year before his death (1742–1743), whereupon he was succeeded by Bernard Moore. [1]