Pierre Jean Baptiste Evariste Bossier

Democrat Representative of Louisiana's 4th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

March 22, 1797 (47 years old)

Birthday

April 24, 1844

Death

Born during the period of Spanish rule in Louisiana
Ethnic French Catholic Creole
Privately educated in the classics
Worked as a planter, cultivating cotton and sugar with the labor of enslaved African Americans
Served in the state militia, achieving the rank of general
Entered politics as a Democrat, serving in the Louisiana State Senate from 1833 to 1843
Involved in a fatal duel in 1839, resulting in the death of a political opponent
Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1843 until his death in 1844
Committed suicide, driven by grief over the duel and its aftermath
His remains are interred at the Catholic Cemetery in Natchitoches
Namesake of Bossier City, Bossier Parish, and other locations in Louisiana