Caesar Carpentier Antoine (1836–1921) was a soldier, businessman, editor, and politician in
Louisiana
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. He served as a state senator for
Caddo Parish
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from 1868 until 1872 when he was elected the third of three
African American
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Republicans to serve as
Lieutenant Governor
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of the
U.S. state
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of
Louisiana
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.
Legacy and honors
*In 2008, C. C. Antoine Celebration was established as an annual event during
Black History Month
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in Shreveport.
[C.C. Antoine Celebration](_blank)
website, accessed 7 February 2014
*A tombstone was dedicated at Antoine's gravesite on Memorial Day, 31 May 1999.
, ''Shreveport Times'', n.d., hosted at North Star website, accessed 7 February 2014
*In 1984, a Shreveport park was named for Antoine and a sculpture of him was installed in it.
*Antoine's house in Shreveport is a state historic site for preservation.
References
*"Caesar Carpentier Antoine". ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), p. 16
*John W. Blassingame, ''Black New Orleans, 1860-1880'' (1973)
*Dorothea Olga McCants, ed., ''Our People and Our History'' (1973)
*Charles Vincent, ''Black Legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction'' (1976)
*Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, eds., ''Dictionary of American Negro Biography'' (1982)
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1836 births
1921 deaths
Republican Party Louisiana state senators
African-American state legislators in Louisiana
Politicians from Shreveport, Louisiana
Businesspeople from New Orleans
Politicians from New Orleans
Barbers
Lieutenant Governors of Louisiana
African Americans in the American Civil War
19th-century American newspaper editors
American planters
School board members in Louisiana
African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
Union Army officers
20th-century African-American people