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George Michael Hahn (November 24, 1830- March 15, 1886 was a Republican Governor of Louisiana, Congressman, United States Senator during Reconstruction and after. November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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 Governor Michael Hahn (1830-1886)
Early life
Hahn was born in Klingemenster, Bavaria and immigrated with his mother and four siblings to New York and then to Texas. The family arrived in New Orleans in 1840, when Hahn was 10 years old. The following year his mother died of yellow fever. Hahn graduated from City High School, and in 1849, began reading law under Christian Roselius, a prominent Whig attorney and later Attorney General of Louisiana. The geographic region and Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...
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Political career In 1851, Hahn graduated from the University of Louisiana (Tulane University) and the following year he was elected to the city school board at the age of 22; he ran the school system as its director. He joined the Democratic party faction lead by Pierre Soulé and in the Presidential Election of 1856, Hahn supported Stephen Douglas over President James Buchanan due to Hahn's philosophical opposition to slavery and secession. The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. ...
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Hahn became a vocal activist in 1860 against the prevailing Southern view and delivered a pro-Union speech in Lafayette Square. He would avoid taking an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. An adherent of the Union, Hahn becomes the U. S. Representative from the Louisiana's 2nd congressional district in 1862. Hahn is one of two Louisiana Representatives seated in the 37th Congress which adjourned March 4, 1863. Eventually, Hahn advised that there should be no more representation from Louisiana until it is reconstructed. During his time in Washington, Hahn met and befriended President Abraham Lincoln. Presidents Park is a unit of the National Park Service, located in Washington, D.C., USA at 38° 53′ 42″ N 77° 02′ 11″ W. It includes the White House, a visitor center, Lafeyette Square, and the Ellipse. ...
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Term as Governor In 1864, with almost all of Louisiana under federal occupation, General Banks, the Union Military Commander of the Union's Department of the Gulf, responsible for civil order in Louisiana called state elections and convened a constitutional convention. Benjamin Franklin Flanders and Thomas Jefferson Durant, prominent and radical Unionists, oppose the moderate plan called for by General Banks. Hahn purchases a pro-slavery newspaper, the New Orleans True Delta and converts it to moderate Unionism supporting Bank’s plan. Hahn also ran for Governor as a moderate Republican and won the election with 54% or 11,411 votes. J. Q. A. Fellows, a conservative received 26% or 2,996 votes and Benjamin Franklin Flanders, the radical Republican received 20% or 2,232 votes. Nathaniel Prentice Banks [sometimes spelled incorrectly Prentiss] (January 30, 1816–September 1, 1894), American politician and soldier, was born at Waltham, Massachusetts. ...
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On March 4, 1864, Hahn is inaugurated as Governor in an elaborate ceremony paid for by General Banks. In his term, Hahn tried to give vote to blacks, but was only adopt the 15th Amendment. Hahn's Administration made serious attempts at ensuring enfranchisement of black Louisianans and laid the foundation for a black school system and began an aborted Reconstruction in Louisiana. Governor Hahn played a leading role in the state constitutional convention of 1864, but he was opposed by Major General Stephen A. Hurlbut who replaced Banks as commander of the Department of the Gulf. General Hurlburt refuses to recognize the civil government of Hahn, and he ran for and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1865. On March 3, 1865, Governor Hahn resigned and his Lieutenant Governor James Madison Wells succeeded him. Insignia of a United States Air Force Major General German Generalmajor Insignia Major General is a military rank used in many countries. ...
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Political editor and congressman After President Lincoln was assassinated in April, 1865, Congress refuses to seat any Representatives or Senators from the South. So, Senator Hahn returned to New Orleans and allied himself with radical Republicans calling for a Convention to revise the Constitution of 1864 to include black suffrage. This led to his almost being killed on July 30, 1866 during a New Orleans Police riot.
Hahn subsequently became Editor and manager of the New Orleans Republican newspaper and in 1872 he moved to a plantation in St. Charles Parish and established the village of Hahnville where he published the St. Charles Herald. St. ...
From 1871-1878 Hahn was elected to the state legislature. There he served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and Speaker of the House. He was appointed Superintendent of the U. S. Mint in 1878, serving until January 1879. At that point, Hahn was appointed Judgeof the 26th Judicial District which included St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson parishes. In the 1880 elections, Hahn established and edited the New Orleans Ledger to promote Republican candidates, and in 1884, Hahn was elected to Congress as the Republican candidate for the 2nd Congressional District and wins by 1,300 votes. Finally serving as a federal legislator from Louisiana, Hahn died on March 15, 1886 in his room at the Willard Hotel in Washington D. C. with a ruptured vessel near his heart. He was buried in Metairie, Louisiana; he died poor and unmarried. The main facade of the Willard InterContinental The Willard InterContinental Washington is a historic and expensive hotel located equidistant from the White House and the National Mall in Washington, DC. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, and voluminous function rooms. ...
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Sources - http://www.enlou.com/people/hahngm-bio.htm| Encyclopedia Louisiana]
- Congressional Biography
- Baker, Vaughn B., and Amos E. Simpson. Michael Hahn: Steady Patriot Louisiana History 13 (summer 1972): pp. 229-52.
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