Julien J. Monette

Julien Joseph Monette (1836 - 1886) was an officer during the American Civil War and a state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era.[1]

Julien J. Monette
Louisiana State Senate
In office
1868–1871
Louisiana State Senate
In office
1877–?
Personal details
Born1836
Died1886(1886-00-00) (aged 49–50)
Panama
Political partyRepublican

Biography

His father Pierre Monette was from Haiti[2] and his mother was Louise Boulin, they married in 1857.[3]

Monette was a captain in the 6th Louisiana Volunteers during the American Civil War.[4]

He was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 1868 to the third district for Orleans and St. Bernard parishes along with T. V. Coupland.[5][4] Monette received 3.284 votes with Coupland second receiving 3,277 votes.[5]

During the 1868 session he served on the Committee on Finance and on the Committee to Ascertain the Amount of Taxes Paid by Vendors of Lottery Tickets in the City of New Orleans to the State of Louisiana.[4] During the 1869 session he served on the Committees on Drainage Commissioners, Enrolment, and Corporations and Parochial Affairs.[4]

He was one of fifteen Republican senators that called for the removal of James F. Casey from the position of Collector of the port of New Orleans.[6]

In 1871 he was noted as owning $700 worth of Orleans Parish real estate.[1] Monette was a partner in the black owned Mississippi River Packet Company along with others senators including Caesar Antoine, George Y. Kelso, Curtis Pollard, P. B. S. Pinchback and Alexander E. Barber.[7][1]

Monette petitioned the court to delegitimize Edward (or Edouard) Monette as a legitimate co-heir of his father Pierre Monette's estate.[8][9]

In April 1874 Monette was elected treasurer of the Radical Republican party of the eighth ward.[10]

Monette ran for the senate again in 1876 when he nominated on the Republican ticket for the third senatorial district.[11] He lost to P. A. Ducros Jr. but contended the result with J. Henry Burch presenting his petition to the senate in January 1877.[12] In March 1877 the case was taken before the senate and Monette won by 16 to 3, with 17 absent, he was declared to be seated, subject to contest.[13]

After the Reconstruction era he left Louisiana and moved to Central America. He died in Panama in 1886.[1] He was the maternal grandfather of Jelly Roll Morton.[2]

See also

References
  1. Foner, Eric (1 August 1996). Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. LSU Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-8071-2082-8. Retrieved October 29, 2022.
  2. Lomax, Alan (December 19, 2001). Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz". University of California Press. ISBN 9780520225305 – via Google Books.
  3. "In the Supreme Court - Noo 4733 - Succession of Pierre Monette" (PDF). Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  4. Jones, Howard J. (1978). "Biographical Sketches of Members of the 1868 Louisiana State Senate". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 19 (1): 66–67, 77. ISSN 0024-6816. JSTOR 4231757. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  5. "Elections in Orleans parish". New Orleans Republican. 24 April 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  6. "J.J. Monette". The Weekly Louisianian. 21 December 1871. p. 1. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  7. "Mississippi River Packet Company". St. Landry Democrat. 22 April 1871. p. 1. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  8. "uccession of Pierre Monette. On Petition of Julien Joseph Monette Praying to be Recognized as Sole Heir and Put in Possession". Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  9. "Court decision regarding Julien Monette contesting legitimacy of Edward Monette". The Times-Picayune. 19 March 1873. p. 2. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  10. "Radical Republican party of the eighth ward meeting and elections". New Orleans Republican. 29 April 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  11. "Republican Parish Ticket". New Orleans Republican. 1 November 1876. p. 2. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  12. "Official Journal of the Sixth General Assembly". New Orleans Republican. 6 January 1877. p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access
  13. "J. J. Monette wins contested seat". New Orleans Republican. 23 March 1877. p. 7. Retrieved 4 November 2022.open access


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