Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . lane UniversityEducational Fund since 1897. WALTER DENIS DENEGRE, Lawyer, wasborn in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 17,1858, the son of James Denis and Sylvanie (Blanc)Denegre. His grandfather, John Dent^gre, of Mon-taubon, France, went to Santo Domingo, WestIndies, and from there to Southampton county,Virginia, where he settled, became a planter anda member of the House of Burgesses. He marriedMary Blow Cobb, of Vir
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . lane UniversityEducational Fund since 1897. WALTER DENIS DENEGRE, Lawyer, wasborn in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 17,1858, the son of James Denis and Sylvanie (Blanc)Denegre. His grandfather, John Dent^gre, of Mon-taubon, France, went to Santo Domingo, WestIndies, and from there to Southampton county,Virginia, where he settled, became a planter anda member of the House of Burgesses. He marriedMary Blow Cobb, of Virginia. James Denis De-n(5gre settled in New Orleans in 1S38, and becameone of the leading financiers of the South. Onaccount of his pronounced sympathies with theConfederate Cause, he and his family being exiledwent to Paris upon the occupation of New Orleansby the Lhiion .\rmy under Banks, there he wasoffered the post of Minister of Finance in Maxi-milians prospective Mexican Empire. He de-clined to ally himself with that cause, and heremained abroad until his death, which occurredat Brussels in 1865. Sylvanie (Blanc) DeniJgre,his wife, was a daughter of Evariste and Fannie. WALTER D. DENEGRE Commission. Since 1S92 he has been successivelyassociated with the law firms of Bayne, DeniSgre &Denegre, Denegre & Denegre, and DentJgre, Blair& Dent^gre, of which later he is still a Deni^gre is one of the most prominent amongthe Democratic Reform leaders in New 1896 he was a candidate for the United StatesSenate and received a majority of the votes, althoughlegislative strategy elected ex-Governor 1894 he declined an appointment as Administra-tor of the Louisiana State University, tendered himby Governor Foster, but accepted a seat upon theBoard of Administrators of the Tulane UniversityEducational Fund in 1897. Aside from his wealthand family connections, his social popularity is UNIFERSITIES AND THEIR SONS ^n greatly enhanced by his scholarly and prof
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