"Alexander C. Mouton"
U.S. senator and governor of Louisiana and planter.
Alexander Mouton was a representative for Lafayette Parish in the Louisiana Legislature (1828-1837), a U.S. Senator for Louisiana (1837-1842), governor of Louisiana (1842-1846), and president of the Louisiana state secession convention in 1861. He first married Celestine Zelia Rousseau with whom he had 13 children before her death. He next married Emma Kitchell Gardner with whom he had six children.