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- ↑ "Acts Passed at the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana ..." J. C. de St. Romes. September 23, 1886 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Membership in the Louisiana Senate 1880–2024" (PDF). Louisiana State Senate . Retrieved 2021-10-07.
- ↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana; Chicago; The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892; transcribed by Kim Mohler
