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Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny

Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny (22 August 1773 – 4 March 1833) was a US Senator from Louisiana from 19 November 1824 to 4 March 1829, succeeding Henry Johnson and preceding Edward Livingston. He was a Democratic-Republican and a National Republican.

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Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny was born in New Orleans, Spanish Louisiana on 22 August 1773, and he served in his father's Louisiana Regiment of the Spanish Army. In 1800, he became a commissioner of the municipal council, and he became a lawyer after the United States acquired Louisiana in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. He was involved with state politics before being elected to the US Senate, serving from 1824 to 1829. He died in 1833.

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