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ID: 55 ~ Source: “Destrehan, Jean Noel.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000273.
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This file appears in: An Influential Politician

By Bailey Lemoine
Jean Noel Destrehan was born in 1754 in what is today St. Charles Parish. He was the son of Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupre, “the head of the Destrehan family line in Louisiana,” the Treasurer of the Louisiana Colony of France (Harvey 13).…