Richard M. J. Kenner was a state legislator in Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives.[1] He attended a Republican ratification meeting in Congo Square in 1868.[2]
Kenner was from the Fourth District.[3] He was removed as ward superintendent in August 1870.[4] In 1871 he served on a House Committee on Elections that found in favor of Frank Alexander over Benjamin Buchanan in a disputed election.[5]
In 1879 he was reported to be a clerk in a Naval office.[6]
He and his wife, Dulease V. Kenner, adopted Fannie Hutton in 1874 and her name was changed to Fannie Justine Kenner.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Clipped From The Weekly Louisianian". The Weekly Louisianian. December 21, 1871. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "E.C. Morphy - Radical Republican Secretary". New Orleans Republican. April 4, 1868. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Vincent, Charles (1976). "Louisiana's Black Legislators and Their Efforts to Pass a Blue Law During Reconstruction". Journal of Black Studies. 7 (1): 47–56. doi:10.1177/002193477600700104. JSTOR 2783730. S2CID 143949628 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Official Proceedings". 1870.
- ^ Representatives, Louisiana Legislature House of (April 17, 1871). "Official Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana". State of Louisiana. – via Google Books.
- ^ "Congressional Serial Set". U.S. Government Printing Office. April 17, 1879 – via Google Books.
- ^ Marr, Robert Hardin (April 17, 1903). "An Annotated Index of the Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana: Through the Session of 1894". F. F. Hansell & bro., Limited – via Google Books.
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