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Sep 16, 1821 St. Martinville, Louisiana, United States Died on 08 Nov 1883 (aged 62)
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About Alcibiades Deblanc
- Jean Maximilien Alcibiades Derneville DeBlanc (September 16, 1821 – November 8, 1883) was a lawyer and state legislator in Louisiana.
- He served as a colonel for the Confederate army during the American Civil War.
- Afterward, he founded the Knights of the White Camellia, a white insurgent militia that operated from 1867-69 to suppress freedmen's voting, disrupt Republican Party political organizing and try to regain political control of the state government in the 1868 election.
- A Congressional investigation overturned 1868 election results in Louisiana. But DeBlanc continued to oppose the Reconstruction effort; he was influential in commanding 600 men to oppose the disputed election of Governor William Pitt Kellogg in 1874 and try to seat the Democrats.
- He was briefly arrested and held by U.S.
- Marshals.
- In 1876 he was appointed by Democratic governor Francis T.
- Nicholls as a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice after white Democrats regained political control in the state.
