Marc M. Mouton served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

The Office of Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana is the second highest state office in Louisiana. The current Lieutenant Governor is Jay Dardenne, a Republican...

 from 1940 until 1944 during the administration of Governor Sam Houston Jones. He graduated from the medical department of Tulane University

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

 in New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

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, Louisiana

Louisiana

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He married Alice Campbell, daughter of Judge William Campbell. Mouton, a Democrat

Democratic Party (United States)

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, was a resident of Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana

Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...

, Louisiana, and died in the summer of 1944 shortly after vacating the office of lieutenant governor to J. Emile Verret

J. Emile Verret

J. Emile Verret was the Democratic lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948, having served under the first of the two nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms of James Houston "Jimmie" Davis. Verret defeated former Governor Earl Kemp Long in the party's runoff election for the second-ranking...

 of New Iberia

New Iberia, Louisiana

New Iberia is a city in and the parish seat of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, 30 miles southeast of Lafayette. In 1900, 6,815 people lived in New Iberia; in 1910, 7,499; and in 1940, 13,747...

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