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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaWilliam Leigh BRENT
(1784-1848)
BRENT, William Leigh,
(nephew of Richard Brent), a Representative from Louisiana; born at
Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md., February 20, 1784; studied law
and was admitted to the bar; moved to Louisiana about 1809 and
commenced practice; appointed by President Madison as deputy
attorney general for the western district of the Territory of
Orleans; elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth
Congress and as an Adams to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth
Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); affiliated with the Whig
Party upon its formation; resumed the practice of law in Louisiana,
and in Washington, D.C.; died in St. Martinsville, La., July 7,
1848; interment in St. Martin’s Catholic Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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