Louis Wigfall
American politician (1816-1874) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 57
Louis Trezevant Wigfall was an American politician who served as a Confederate States senator from Texas from 1862 to 1865. A slaveowner, he was among a group of leading secessionists known as Fire-Eaters, advocating the preservation and expansion of an aristocratic agricultural society based on slave labor.
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He briefly served as a Confederate Brigadier General of the Texas Brigade at the outset of the American Civil War before taking his seat in the Confederate Senate. Wigfall's reputation for oratory and hard-drinking, along with a combative nature and high-minded sense of personal honor, made him one of the more imposing political figures of his time.
