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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 appointed an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to [[Mexico]] from 1845 to 1846, but the unstable Mexican government refused to recognize him. He was similarly an envoy to [[Guatemala]], [[Nicaragua]], [[El Salvador]], and [[Honduras]]. He was a member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1853 to 1861 but resigned at the advent of the [[American Civil War]],<ref name=lahist/> as did all southern senators except [[Andrew Johnson]].

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 appointed an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to [[Mexico]] from 1845 to 1846, but the unstable Mexican government refused to recognize him. He was similarly an envoy to [[Guatemala]], [[Nicaragua]], [[El Salvador]], and [[Honduras]]. He was a member of the [[United States Senate]] from 1853 to 1861 but resigned at the advent of the [[American Civil War]],<ref name=lahist/> as did all southern senators except [[Andrew Johnson]].

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 U.S. Navy war vessel, the ''Trent.''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]], who served in the U.S. Senate alongside Slidell.  

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 U.S. Navy war vessel, the ''Trent,'' 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]], who served in the U.S. Senate alongside Slidell.  

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 [[Tulane 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>

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 [[Tulane 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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