Lovell Harrison Rousseau Major General, United States Army Member of Congress |
 |
| Courtesy
of the U.S. House of Representatives:
His son, George Lovell Rousseau, First Lieutenant, United States Army died at El Paso, Texas, 1883, age of 56 years, and is buried in Section 2 near his Father. NOTE: George Lovell Rousseau of Kentucky; appointed from Kentucky, Second Lieutenant, 20th U. S. Infantry, 10 March 1875; First Lieutenant, 18 December 1880; Dismissed from the service, 4 June 1881; Died 22 September 1882 His son-in-law, Brigadier General Louis
Douglass Watkins, is buried next to him in Section 2.
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, September 21, 1892 – Mrs. Rousseau, relict of the famous General Lovell H. Rousseau, arrived in this city this afternoon from her home in Arlington, near Washington. She is here to superintend the removal of the remains of General Rousseau and other members of her family from Cave Hill Cemetery, in this city, to Arlington, where they will be reinterred. General Rousseau died in New Orleans early in the seventies and his remains were brought to this city and buried. Webmaster: Michael
Robert Patterson
ROUSSEAU, L H GEN USA DATE OF DEATH: 01/07/1869 BURIED AT: SITE 1047 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY ROUSSEAU, MARIE ANTONIETT W/O L H
ROUSSEAU, GEO L S/O L H
Courtesy of the Library of Congress 
Page Updated: 29 October 2000 Updated: 5 February 2001 Updated: 8 June 2001 Updated: 1 September 2002 Updated: 14 June 2003 Updated: 15 May 2004 Updated: 27 November 2005 Updated: 29 March 2007 |
|
Representative from Kentucky; born near Stanford, Lincoln County, Ky.,
August 4, 1818; attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted
to the bar in 1841 and began practice in Bloomfield, Ind.; member of the
Indiana State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; captain in the
Mexican War; served in the Indiana State senate 1847-1849; returned to
Kentucky in 1849 and resumed the practice of law in Louisville; member
of the Kentucky State senate 1860-1861; served as a colonel, brigadier
general, and major general in the Union Army during the Civil War and resigned
November 17, 1865; elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth
Congress and served from March 4, 1865, to July 21, 1866, when he resigned,
after having made an assault upon Representative Grinnell, of Iowa, in
the Capitol Building; censured by the House of Representatives on July
24, 1866, for his assault on Grinnell; was subsequently reelected to fill
the vacancy caused by his own resignation and took his seat December 3,
1866, and served until March 3, 1867; appointed a brigadier general in
the Regular Army with the brevet rank of major general on March 27, 1867,
and assigned to duty in Alaska; on July 28, 1868, was placed in command
of the Department of Louisiana and served in that capacity until his death
in New Orleans, La., January 7, 1869; interment in Arlington National
Cemetery, Section 2, Grave 1847.
