Charles Parlange
Charles Parlange (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907) was a Louisiana state senator, United States Attorney, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor serving under Governor Murphy J. Foster, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and United States federal judge.
Parlange was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Charles and Virginie (Trahan) Parlange of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.
He attended Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana. He read law in 1873 and resided at his family home, Parlange Plantation near New Roads, Louisiana.
Parlange was engaged in the private practice of law in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana from 1873 to 1880. He was named United States Commissioner from Louisiana to the Paris Exposition of 1878 and was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1879. Parlange was elected to the Louisiana State Senate from 1880 to 1885, representing Pointe Coupee Parish and Avoyelles Parish. He resigned his senate seat to become U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1885 to 1889. He was in private practice of law in New Orleans from 1889 to 1892. Elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana in 1892, he resigned in 1893 to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Louisiana until 1894.
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