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==Background==

==Background==

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Pipes's great great-grandfather, John Pipes, was among the first settlers of [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. David Pipes, Jr. was born in [[New Orleans]] to David Washington Pipes, Sr., and the former Anna Fort of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The senior Pipes' first wife died, and in 1885, he married the then 21-year-old Anna, who was born in 1863, the year that the senior Pipes, as a teenager was fighting for the [[Confederate States of America]] at [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]], Pennsylvania. Pipes, Sr., was a state senator for East Feliciana Parish from 1892 to 1896 and 1916 to 1920. Between the Senate terms, he was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1898.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url= https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-p/|title=Pipes, David Washington|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' by the Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=May 29, 2019}}</ref><ref name=pipesfamily/> was educated in public and private schools in Clinton in East Feliciana Parish, and in Port Gibson in Claiborne County, [[Mississippi]], across the [[Mississippi River]] from Louisiana. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, [[Virginia]], the ninth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. [[Robert E. Lee]] was the W&L president from 1865 to 1870. Pipes obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1906. Thereafter, he remained at W&L to study law, but he transferred to [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans, from which he received the LL.B. degree in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in both Virginia and Louisiana and practiced in New Orleans from 1910 to 1913.​<ref name=bio/>

Pipes's great great-grandfather, John Pipes, was among the first settlers of [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. David Pipes, Jr. was born in [[New Orleans]] to David Washington Pipes, Sr., and the former Anna Fort of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The senior Pipes' first wife died, and in 1885, he married the then 21-year-old Anna, who was born in 1863, the year that the senior Pipes, as a teenager was fighting for the [[Confederate States of America]] at [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]], Pennsylvania. Pipes, Sr., was a state senator for East Feliciana Parish from 1892 to 1896 and 1916 to 1920. Between the Senate terms, he was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1898.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url= https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-p/|title=Pipes, David Washington|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' by the Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=May 29, 2019}}</ref><ref name=pipesfamily/>

 

Pipes, Jr., was educated in public and private schools in Clinton in East Feliciana Parish, and in Port Gibson in Claiborne County, [[Mississippi]], across the [[Mississippi River]] from Louisiana. He attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, [[Virginia]], the ninth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. [[Robert E. Lee]] was the W&L president from 1865 to 1870. Pipes obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1906. Thereafter, he remained at W&L to study law, but he transferred to [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans, from which he received the LL.B. degree in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in both Virginia and Louisiana and practiced in New Orleans from 1910 to 1913.​<ref name=bio/>

==Sugar planter==

==Sugar planter==