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Nicholas Girod (21 April 1751-1 September 1840) was the Democratic-Republican Mayor of New Orleans from 8 October to 5 November 1812 (succeeding Charles Trudeau and preceding Francois Joseph LeBreton Dorgenois) and from 5 December 1812 to 4 September 1815 (succeeding Dorgenois and preceding Augustin de Macarty).

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Nicolas Girod was born in Cluses, Haute-Savoie in 1751, and he migrated to Spanish Louisiana in the late 1770s and became a merchant and property owner in the American quarter of New Orleans. He became New Orleans' first regularly-elected mayor after its accession to the United States in 1812, and he briefly resigned due to illness before returning to the office and presiding over the city's role in the War of 1812. In 1821, he vainly planned to aid Napoleon in escaping from Saint Helena to New Orleans; Napoleon died before he could be rescued. Girod died in 1840.

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