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  2. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    Of the fifty states, eleven are named after an individual person. Six of those are named in honor of European monarchs: the two Carolinas, the two Virginias, Georgia, and Louisiana. In addition, Maryland is named after Queen Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I of England, and New York after the then-Duke of York, who later became ...

  3. Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 to 1715. ... there were an estimated 7,373 homeless people in Louisiana. [173] [174] In 2022, Louisiana ...

  4. History of Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862. After the defeat of the Confederate Army in 1865, Louisiana would enter the Reconstruction era (1865

  5. List of people from Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Andrew R. Johnson (1856–1933), state senator and mayor of Homer; named Ashland, Louisiana Avery Johnson (born 1965), NBA player and coach Bernette Joshua Johnson (born 1943), Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court since 2013; associate justice, 1994–2013

  6. Thousands of Americans named after Founding Fathers - AOL

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    And if you're wondering about our current commander in chief, there aren't many Obamas in the U.S., apart from the first family, but there were 11 little boys born in 2013 whose parents named them ...

  7. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac - Wikipedia

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    It is named for Antoine De LaMotte Cadillac, governor of Louisiana 1710–1717." Cadillac did not obey. He drew up a general inventory of the straits, and then, in 1711, boarded a ship, with his family, bound for France. In Paris, in 1712, he convinced the Toulouse-born financier Antoine Crozat to invest in Louisiana. [11]

  8. Places in America You're Definitely Pronouncing Incorrectly - AOL

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    In fact, the first syllable is pronounced "HOW" or "HOUSE," like the shelter people live in. The street and the city were named in honor of different men, William Houstoun and Sam Houston ...

  9. French Louisianians - Wikipedia

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    The commonly accepted definition of Louisiana Creole today is a person descended from ancestors in Louisiana before the Louisiana Purchase by the United States in 1803. [6] An estimated 7,000 European immigrants settled in Louisiana during the 18th century, one percent of the number of European colonists in the Thirteen Colonies along the ...