Francis T. Nicholls
| Francis T. Nicholls | |
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| 28th Governor of Louisiana | |
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In office May 20, 1888 – May 10, 1892 |
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| Lieutenant | James Jeffries |
| Preceded by | Samuel D. McEnery |
| Succeeded by | Murphy J. Foster |
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In office April 24, 1877 – January 14, 1880 |
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| Lieutenant | Louis A. Wiltz |
| Preceded by | Stephen B. Packard |
| Succeeded by | Louis A. Wiltz |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 20, 1834 Donaldsonville, Louisiana |
| Died | January 4, 1912 (aged 77) near Thibodaux, Louisiana |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Zilpha Guion |
| Alma mater | University of Louisiana (later named Tulane University) |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1855–1856 (USA) 1861–1865 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 2nd Lieutenant (USA) Brigadier General (CSA)
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| Unit | 2nd U.S. Artillery 8th Louisiana Infantry (CSA) |
| Commands | 15th Louisiana Infantry (CSA) Nicholls' Brigade |
| Battles/wars | |
Third Seminole War
American Civil War
Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls (August 20, 1834 – January 4, 1912) was an American attorney, politician, judge, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He served two terms as the 28th Governor of Louisiana, first from 1876 to 1880 and then from 1888 to 1892.
Nicholls and such fellow Democrats as Richard Coke of neighboring Texas and Wade Hampton of South Carolina were called "Redeemer" governors because their elections, coupled with the accession to the White House of moderate Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, essentially ended the power of Radical Republicans during Reconstruction. As things developed, the "Redeemers" imposed a one-party system on the defeated South which lasted for nearly a century.
Nicholls was born at Prevost Memorial Hospital in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, the seat of Ascension Parish, the seventh son of Thomas Clark Nicholls (himself a seventh son) and Louisa Hannah (Drake) Nicholls, a sister of the poet Joseph Rodman Drake and sister-in-law of Francis Redding Tillou. His paternal grandfather was Cornish American Edward Church Nicholls. He attended Jefferson Academy in New Orleans and graduated in 1855 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Initially assigned as a second lieutenant in the 2nd U.S. Artillery Regiment, he served in the third war against the Seminoles in Florida, but resigned his commission after a year and returned home.
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