Lovell Harrison Rousseau (4 August 1818-7 January 1869) was a member of the US House of Representatives (U-KY 5) from 4 March 1865 to 3 March 1867, succeeding Robert Mallory and preceding Asa Grover. He was also a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Lovell Harrison Rousseau was born in Stanford, Kentucky in 1818, and he became a lawyer in Bloomfield, Indiana in 1841. He served as a US Army captain during the Mexican-American War and distinguished himself at the Battle of Buena Vista, and he served in the Indiana Senate after returning from the war and then served in the Kentucky Senate from 1860 to 1861. He supported the Union during the American Civil War, and he rose to the rank of Major-General, fighting at the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Stones River, and as commander of Nashville from November 1863 to November 1865. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867 as a Unionist, and he broke a cane over Josiah Bushnell Grinnell's face when Grinnell insulted his war service and his home state. He was later sent to Alaska to oversee its transfer from the Russian Empire, and he commanded the US Army troops in New Orleans from 1868 until his death in 1869.
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