Duncan Cage

Duncan S. Cage
Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Preceded bySimeon Belden
Succeeded byCharles W. Lowell
Personal details
Born
Natchitoches, Louisiana

Duncan S. Cage (died 1885 at age 60)[1] was a politician in Louisiana. He served as Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.[2] He was a signatory to an act for the indentured servitude of orphans.[3] He served in the Louisiana House in 1865 and 1866.[4]

He was born in Mississippi. Harry Cage was his father and he had several prominent family members. He became a sugar planter in Terrebonne Parish. He raised a company during the Civil War and became a Colonel in the Confederate Army before taking sick during the Siege of Vicksburg when his regiment was captured. He then served on General Kirby Smith's staff.

He married and had 4 sons and 3 daughters. His son Hugh C Cage was lawyer and Citizens' League member who became a Democratic Party politician and served in the Louisiana Senate.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Fortier, Alcée (September 27, 1914). "Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form". Century historical association – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Constitution of the State of Louisiana: Adopted in Convention at ... New Orleans, the Twenty-third Day of July, A.D. 1879". J.H. Cosgrove. September 27, 1879 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War". www.digitalhistory.uh.edu.
  4. ^ Representatives, Louisiana Legislature House of (September 27, 1865). "Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana at the ... General Assembly ..." – via Google Books.


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