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Michael Hahn


19th Governor of Louisiana
In office March 4, 1864 – March 4, 1865
Lieutenant	James M. Wells
Preceded by	Henry Watkins Allen (Confederate Governor) George F. Shepley
Succeeded by	James M. Wells
Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd district
In office December 3, 1862 – March 4, 1863
Preceded by	Miles Taylor
Succeeded by	James Mann
Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd district
In office March 4, 1885 – March 15, 1886
Preceded by	Ezekiel John Ellis
Succeeded by	Nathaniel Dick Wallace

Personal details
Born	(1830-11-24)November 24, 1830 Klingenmünster, Rhineland-Palatinate
Died	March 15, 1886(1886-03-15) (aged 55) Washington, DC
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Unmarried
Alma mater	Tulane University

George Michael Decker Hahn (November 24, 1830 – March 15, 1886) was the 19th Governor of Louisiana, Congressman, United States Senator during Reconstruction and after.

Early life

Hahn was born in Klingenmünster, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Hahn was a Roman Catholic. With his mother and four siblings, the family immigrated to New York and then to Texas before arriving in New Orleans in 1840, when Hahn was ten years of age. The following year his mother died of yellow fever. Hahn graduated from City High School and in 1849, began reading law under Christian Roselius, a prominent Whig attorney and later Attorney General of Louisiana.

Political career

In 1851, Hahn graduated from the University of Louisiana (Tulane University) and the following year he was elected to the city school board at the age of 22; he ran the school system as its director. He joined the Democratic party faction led by Pierre Soulé and, in the Presidential Election of 1856, Hahn supported Stephen Douglas over President James Buchanan because of Hahn's philosophical opposition to slavery and secession.

Hahn became a vocal activist in 1860 against the prevailing Southern view and delivered a pro-Union speech in Lafayette Square. He would avoid taking an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. An adherent of the Union, Hahn became the U. S. Representative from the Louisiana's 2nd congressional district in 1862. Hahn was one of two Louisiana Representatives seated in the 37th Congress which adjourned on March 4, 1863. Eventually, Hahn advised that there should be no more representation from Louisiana until it was reconstructed. During his time in Washington, Hahn met and befriended President Abraham Lincoln.

Term as Governor

In 1864, with almost all of Louisiana under federal occupation, General Banks, the Union Military Commander of the Union's Department of the Gulf (responsible, among other things, for civil order in occupied Louisiana) called state elections and convened a constitutional convention. Benjamin Franklin Flanders and Thomas Jefferson Durant, prominent and radical Unionists, opposed the moderate plan called for by General Banks. Hahn purchased a pro-slavery newspaper, the New Orleans True Delta and converted it to moderate Unionism supporting Banks' plan. Hahn also ran for Governor as a moderate Republican and won the election with 54% or 11,411 votes. J. Q. A. Fellows, a conservative received 26% or 2,996 votes and Benjamin Franklin Flanders, the radical Republican received 20% or 2,232 votes.

On March 4, 1864, Hahn was inaugurated as Governor of Union-held Louisiana in an elaborate ceremony paid for by General Banks. In his term, Hahn tried to give the ability to vote to blacks, but was only able to adopt the 15th Amendment. Hahn's Administration made serious attempts at ensuring enfranchisement of black Louisianans and laid the foundation for a black school system and began an aborted Reconstruction in Louisiana. Governor Hahn played a leading role in the state constitutional convention of 1864, but he was opposed by Major General Stephen A. Hurlbut who replaced Banks as commander of the Department of the Gulf. General Hurlburt refused to recognize the civil government of Hahn, and so, Hahn ran for and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1865. On March 3, 1865, Governor Hahn resigned and his Lieutenant Governor James Madison Wells succeeded him.

Political editor and congressman

After President Lincoln was assassinated in April, 1865, and Congress refused to seat any Representatives or Senators from the South until a reconstruction plan could be carried out. So, Senator-elect Hahn returned to New Orleans and allied himself with radical Republicans calling for a Convention to revise the Constitution of 1864 to include black suffrage. This led to his almost being killed on July 30, 1866 during a New Orleans Police riot.

Hahn subsequently became Editor and manager of the New Orleans Republican newspaper, and in 1872 he moved to a plantation in St. Charles Parish and established the village of Hahnville where he published the St. Charles Herald.

From 1871-1878 Hahn served in the state legislature. There he served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and Speaker of the House. He was appointed Superintendent of the U. S. Mint in 1878, serving until January 1879. At that point, Hahn was appointed Judge of the 26th Judicial District which included Saint John the Baptist, Saint Charles and Jefferson parishes. In the 1880 elections, Hahn established and edited the New Orleans Ledger to promote Republican candidates, and in 1884 Hahn was elected to Congress as the Republican candidate for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district—a race which he won by 1,300 votes. Finally serving as a federal legislator from Louisiana, Hahn died on March 15, 1886, in his room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, with a ruptured vessel near his heart. He was buried in New Orleans' Metairie Cemetery; he died poor and unmarried.

Notes

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References

Congressional Biography
Baker, Vaughn B., and Amos E. Simpson. "Michael Hahn: Steady Patriot" Louisiana History 13 (summer 1972): pp. 229–52.
Andrews, Elisha Benjamin (1903). The United States in our own time; a history from reconstruction to expansion; being an extension of "The history of the last quarter century. C. Scribner's Sons. pp. 160–67.

External links

State of Louisiana - Biography
"Hahn, Michael" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892.
Cemetery Memorial by La-Cemeteries

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byMiles Taylor	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district 1862–1863	Succeeded byvacant
Preceded byEzekiel John Ellis	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district 1885–1886	Succeeded byNathaniel Dick Wallace
Political offices
Preceded byHenry Watkins Allen Confederate Governor George F. Shepley Military Governor	Governor of Louisiana 1864–1865	Succeeded byJames M. Wells
Preceded byCharles W. Lowell	Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives Michael Hahn (Disputed) Louis A. Wiltz 1875	Succeeded byE.D. Estilette Wheeler Compromise
U.S. Senate
Preceded byvacant	U.S. senator (Class 2) from Louisiana 1865–1865 Served alongside: none	Succeeded byvacant

v t e Governors of Louisiana
State (1812–1861)	Claiborne Villeré Robertson Thibodaux H. Johnson Derbigny Beauvais Dupré Roman White Roman Mouton I. Johnson Walker Hébert Wickliffe Moore
Confederate (1861–1865)	Moore H. Allen
Union (1862–1865)	Shepley Hahn
Reconstruction (1865–1868)	Wells Flanders Baker
State (since 1868)	Warmoth Pinchback J. McEnery Kellogg Packard Nicholls Wiltz S. McEnery Nicholls M. J. Foster Heard Blanchard Sanders Hall Pleasant Parker Fuqua Simpson H. Long King O. Allen Noe Leche E. Long Jones Davis E. Long Kennon E. Long Davis McKeithen E. Edwards Treen E. Edwards Roemer E. Edwards M. Foster Blanco Jindal J. Edwards Landry

v t e Speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives
St. Martin Hopkins Guichard Ker Beauvais Roman LaBranche Roman Mouton la Branche J. M. Walker DeBuys Claiborne Derbigny Bouduosquie Randall Farrar Moise King Moise Sandidge Pugh Morrison Oliver Elam Belden Cage Lowell Carr Carter Brewster Lowell Wiltz Hahn Estilette Hahn Bush Moncure R. Ogden H. Ogden Henry Bolton Henry Sanders Sr. Snyder Hyams Dupré Thomas Bouanchaud R. F. Walker Douglas Hughes Fournet Ellender Wimberly Bauer Lottinger Sr. Wimberly Aycock Wimberly Angelle Jewell Delony Garrett Henry Hainkel Alario Dimos Alario Downer DeWitt Salter Tucker Kleckley Barras Schexnayder DeVillier

Speakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana
1st district	E. Livingston White H. Johnson White Slidell La Sére St. Martin Dunbar Eustis Bouligny Sypher Lawrence Gibson Hunt St. Martin Wilkinson Meyer Estopinal O'Connor Fernández Hébert Tonry B. Livingston Vitter Jindal Scalise
2nd district	Gurley Thomas Ripley Chinn Dawson la Branche Thibodeaux Conrad Bullard J. A. Landry Hunt Taylor Mann Sheldon Ellis Hahn Wallace Lagan Coleman Lagan Davey Buck Davey Gilmore Dupré Spearing Maloney H. Boggs Maloney H. Boggs L. Boggs Jefferson Cao Richmond Carter
3rd district	Brent Overton Bullard Garland J. Moore Dawson Harmanson Penn Perkins Davidson Newsham Darrall Acklen Darrall Kellogg Gay Price Broussard Martin Montet Mouton Domengeaux Willis Caffery Treen Tauzin Melançon J. M. Landry Boustany Higgins
4th district	Bossier Morse J. Moore Jones Sandidge Landrum Vidal Newsham McCleery Boarman Smith Levy Elam Blanchard Ogden Breazeale Watkins Sandlin Brooks Waggonner Leach Roemer McCrery Fields McCrery Fleming M. Johnson
5th district	Blackburn Morey Spencer Leonard Young King Newton Boatner Baird Ransdell Elder Wilson Mills McKenzie Passman Huckaby McCrery Cooksey Alexander McAllister Abraham Letlow
6th district	Nash E. Robertson Lewis Irion E. Robertson S. Robertson Favrot Wickliffe Morgan Sanders Sr. Favrot Kemp Sanders Jr. Griffith Sanders Jr. Morrison Rarick H. Moore Baker Cazayoux Cassidy Graves Fields (elect)
7th district	Pujo Lazaro De Rouen Plauché Larcade Thompson Edwards Breaux Hayes John Boustany
8th district	Aswell Overton Dear Allen G. S. "Doc" Long McSween G. W. Long S. Long G. W. Long C. Long Holloway
At-large	Robertson Butler Johnston Sheridan
Territory	Clark Poydras

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