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James H. Cohen and Sons

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James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
James H. Cohen and Sons
Phone:
+1 504-522-3305

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday9:30am - 5pm
Thursday9:30am - 5pm
Friday9:30am - 5pm
Saturday9:30am - 5pm


James Lewis was notable as a soldier and Republican Party politician in Louisiana. Born into slavery and of mixed race, during the American Civil War he left a position as steward on a Confederate steamboat to move to New Orleans, which had been taken over by Union troops. There he helped organize the First Louisiana Volunteer Native Guards, becoming captain of Company K and serving until 1864. After the war he became politically active in the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era, where he was an ally of several other leading men of color in the city and state. This was an especially violent time in Louisiana and New Orleans politics, but Lewis survived for decades as a political leader. He initially worked for the Freedmen's Bureau, where he was an agent to raise money and establish schools for freed slaves. He was appointed as a federal custom's inspector for a short period, the first man of African descent to gain a federal civil position in the state. He was recalled for political reasons. Lewis entered the New Orleans Metropolitan police force, but left in 1872 after more political machinations. He emerged from the immediate postwar period as a leader in the New Orleans Republican Party . For much of the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, and 1900s, he held state and federal-level Republican-appointee government positions, usually in the United States Treasury Department. He also served for years under Republican administrations as the surveyor-general of Louisiana and Mississippi. He was a Freemason and a leader in the Grand Army of the Republic, a civil war veterans organization.
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