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3 unusual facts about James Madison Wells


James Madison Wells

He supported Hugh Kennedy as New Orleans mayor and appointed numerous former Confederate officers to state and local offices.

Walter M. Lowrey, "The Political Career of James Madison Wells,", Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 31 (October, 1948), pp.

Wells was educated at St. Joseph’s College in Bardstown, south of Louisville, Kentucky, Partridges Academy, Middletown, Connecticut, and Cincinnati Law School, having then returned to Louisiana in 1829 to manage several of his family's plantations.



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