Francois Xavier Martin
American politician
Born on: March 17, 1762Died on: December 11, 1846
Aged: 84 years 269 days (1016 months)
Birth Sign: Pisces
François Xavier Martin, was a Franco-American lawyer and author, the first Attorney General of State of Louisiana, and longtime Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Born in Marseille, he moved to Martinique in 1780, and then immigrated to North Carolina just before the end American Revolutionary War.
He was appointed as Attorney General of the Territory of Orleans after the Louisiana Purchase; he also helped untangle layers of French and Spanish colonial law in the territory and subsequent state of Louisiana.
His legal writing and reviews of cases was important to codification of Louisiana law in the 1820s.
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