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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=John Slidell
|office=[[United States Senator]] from Louisiana
| term_start 1853
| term_end=February 1861
| preceded=Pierre Soule'
| succeeded=William Pitt Kellogg
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] for the 1st congressional district of Louisiana
| date_start2=1843
| date_end2=1845
| preceded2=[[Edward Douglass White]]
| succeeded2=Emile La Sere
| nationality=[[Scotland|Scottish]]-[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=1793
| birth_place=[[New York]]
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[Columbia University|Columbia College]]
| death_date=July 28, 1871 (aged 78)
| death_place=[[Isle of Wight]], [[England]]<br>
| resting_place=Saint-Roman family private cemetery in [[Paris]], [[France]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| spouse=Mathilde Deslonde Slidell (married 1835)<br>
| children=Alfred, Marie, and Matilda Slidell
'''Parents''':<br>
John and Margery Mackenzie Slidell}}
'''John Slidell (1793 – July 28, 1871) was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, [[attorney]], and [[politician]] in his adopted city of [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]].
A native of [[New York]], he was a son of John Slidell, Sr., a merchant, and the former Margery Mackenzie. He graduated from [[Columbia University|Columbia College]] in 1810. He settled in New Orleans in 1819. In 1835, he married the former Mathilde Deslonde, and the couple had three children., Alfred, Marie, and Matilda. Slidell's sister, Jane, married t[[United States Navy]] Commodore [[Matthew Perry]]. His brother, Thomas Slidell, was a chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, based in New Orleans. Slidell was engaged in the mercantile business in New York and was admitted to the New York bar. His New Orleans law practice extended from 1819 to 1843.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-s/|title=Slidell, John|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 19, 2020}}</ref>
Slidell was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, ran unsuccessfully in 1828 for the [[United
States House of Representatives]] but was elected to that body for one term from 1843 to 1845.. He was the Orleans Parish district attorney from 1829 to 1833. He was an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to [[Mexico]] from 1845 to 1846. He was similarly an envoy to [[Guatemala]], [[Nicaragua]], [[El Salvador]], and [[Honduras]]. He was a member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1853 to 186 but resigned as did all southern senators except [[Andrew Johnson]] with the advent of the [[American Civil War]]. <ref name=lahist/>
He was a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] diplomatic agent to [[France]] from 1861 to 1865.
In an international incident in 1861, Slidell and fellow diplomat James M. Mason of [[Virginia]] were seized by the British from the [[United States Navy]] war vessel, the ''Trent" in an international incident in 1861. He was a key political figure in Louisiana during the 1850s and the administration of [[U.S. President]] [[James Buchanan]]. After the Civil War, he resided in [[Paris]], [[France]],<ref name=lahist/> as had another high-ranking Confederate [[Judah P. Benjamin]]. France.
Slidell, a city (2010 population: 27,000) in St. Tammany Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans, is named in his honor. He died at the age of seventy-eight at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, in [[England]] and is interred at the Saint-Roman family private cemetery near Paris.<ref name=lahist/><ref>'''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses these sources for its article on Slidell: ''National Cyclopedia of American Biography,'' II; Clayton Rand, ''Stars in Their Eyes'' (1953); ''The Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971'' (1971); “John Slidell: Louisiana Politician” (Master of Arts thesis, at [[Tuane University]] in 1948); A. L. Diket, ''ohn Slidell and the Community He Represented in the Senate, 1853-1861'' (Ph. D. dissertation at Louisiana State University, (1958), and Louis M. Sears, ''John Slidell'' (1925).</ref>
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|name=John Slidell
|office=[[United States Senator]] from Louisiana
| term_start 1853
| term_end=February 1861
| preceded=Pierre Soule'
| succeeded=William Pitt Kellogg
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] for the 1st congressional district of Louisiana
| date_start2=1843
| date_end2=1845
| preceded2=[[Edward Douglass White]]
| succeeded2=Emile La Sere
| nationality=[[Scotland|Scottish]]-[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=1793
| birth_place=[[New York]]
'''Alma mater''':<br>
[[Columbia University|Columbia College]]
| death_date=July 28, 1871 (aged 78)
| death_place=[[Isle of Wight]], [[England]]<br>
| resting_place=Saint-Roman family private cemetery in [[Paris]], [[France]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| spouse=Mathilde Deslonde Slidell (married 1835)<br>
| children=Alfred, Marie, and Matilda Slidell
'''Parents''':<br>
John and Margery Mackenzie Slidell}}
'''John Slidell (1793 – July 28, 1871) was an [[United States|American]] [[business]]man, [[attorney]], and [[politician]] in his adopted city of [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]].
A native of [[New York]], he was a son of John Slidell, Sr., a merchant, and the former Margery Mackenzie. He graduated from [[Columbia University|Columbia College]] in 1810. He settled in New Orleans in 1819. In 1835, he married the former Mathilde Deslonde, and the couple had three children., Alfred, Marie, and Matilda. Slidell's sister, Jane, married t[[United States Navy]] Commodore [[Matthew Perry]]. His brother, Thomas Slidell, was a chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, based in New Orleans. Slidell was engaged in the mercantile business in New York and was admitted to the New York bar. His New Orleans law practice extended from 1819 to 1843.<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-s/|title=Slidell, John|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 19, 2020}}</ref>
Slidell was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, ran unsuccessfully in 1828 for the [[United
States House of Representatives]] but was elected to that body for one term from 1843 to 1845.. He was the Orleans Parish district attorney from 1829 to 1833. He was an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to [[Mexico]] from 1845 to 1846. He was similarly an envoy to [[Guatemala]], [[Nicaragua]], [[El Salvador]], and [[Honduras]]. He was a member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1853 to 186 but resigned as did all southern senators except [[Andrew Johnson]] with the advent of the [[American Civil War]]. <ref name=lahist/>
He was a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] diplomatic agent to [[France]] from 1861 to 1865.
In an international incident in 1861, Slidell and fellow diplomat James M. Mason of [[Virginia]] were seized by the British from the [[United States Navy]] war vessel, the ''Trent" in an international incident in 1861. He was a key political figure in Louisiana during the 1850s and the administration of [[U.S. President]] [[James Buchanan]]. After the Civil War, he resided in [[Paris]], [[France]],<ref name=lahist/> as had another high-ranking Confederate [[Judah P. Benjamin]]. France.
Slidell, a city (2010 population: 27,000) in St. Tammany Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans, is named in his honor. He died at the age of seventy-eight at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, in [[England]] and is interred at the Saint-Roman family private cemetery near Paris.<ref name=lahist/><ref>'''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'' uses these sources for its article on Slidell: ''National Cyclopedia of American Biography,'' II; Clayton Rand, ''Stars in Their Eyes'' (1953); ''The Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971'' (1971); “John Slidell: Louisiana Politician” (Master of Arts thesis, at [[Tuane University]] in 1948); A. L. Diket, ''ohn Slidell and the Community He Represented in the Senate, 1853-1861'' (Ph. D. dissertation at Louisiana State University, (1958), and Louis M. Sears, ''John Slidell'' (1925).</ref>
==Reference==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAUTSORT: Slidell, John}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:New York]]
[[Category:Mexico]]
[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Diplomats]]