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To: wardaddy

“Slidell Louisiana?”

The city is named for him.

John Slidell was originally a New Yorker. Moved to Louisiana as an adult. Got into politics and was a US Senator from Louisiana in the 1850s.

225 posted on 05/12/2024 11:54:57 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)

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To: Pelham

I remember him from Mexican war readings now
Quite a diplomat

226 posted on 05/13/2024 7:42:41 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we’re enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)

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