Pierre Soulé
Pierre Soulé (born with Castillon-in-Couserans the August 31st 1801 and deceased the March 26th 1870 with La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a lawyer and Politicien French emigrated with the the United States.
Biography
Pierre Soulé is born in 1801 with Castillon-in-Couserans, in Ariège. He studies first of all with the college Jésuite of Toulouse, then with the academy of Bordeaux. In 1816, it is exiled in Navarre after being judged for anti-royalists activities. The following year, it leaves in the the Pyrenees like boy shepherd. It obtains its forgiveness in 1818 and goes back to Bordeaux to continue its studies.
It leaves then to Paris to study the right and, at the end of its studies, is registered with the bar of the capital. In same time, it is tested with journalism, publishing in particular Pamphlet S revolutionists. Captured, he is imprisoned in 1825 but manages to escape for the England. The same year, it embarks for Haiti then, from there, joined the United States. After having travelled some time in the country, it is fixed at New-Orleans, obtains its American naturalization, and starts to practice the right.
He is elected with the democratic Sénat like on January 21st, 1846, then re-elected until the April 11th 1853, date on which he resigns. For this period, he is secretary of the commission to agriculture.
In 1853, it is named ambassador in Spain for two years. At that time, he is the author of the Manifeste of Ostend on the evolution of the relationship between the United States and Cuba. At the end of its mandate, it takes again its activities of lawyer.
At the time of the release of the American Civil War, there is opposed to the ideas Southerners of separation, but remains honest with its fatherland of adoption, the Louisiana. At the time of the capture of New-Orleans by the troops of the Union, it is arrested and imprisoned with the Fort Lafayette in the State of New York for a few months like sympathizer of the Confederation.
Released on word with Boston, he flees with the the Bahamas before turning over to Richmond (Virginia). At the end of the war, in 1865, it is exiled for Havana in order to avoid the prison. A few years later, the government authorizes it to return on the American ground. It returns then to New-Orleans. At that time, taken of an access of madness, it burns all its personal papers and documents whose only some letters have escaped with the destruction.
He dies on March 26th, 1870 and is buried in the cemetery of Saint Louis (Missouri).
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