John Baptiste Charles Lucas

Armed with a letter of introduction from Franklin, Lucas was made a federal land grant judge by Thomas Jefferson, then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

He eventually resigned and moved to St. Louis, reportedly in part because he and his wife, Anne, missed French society.

In the early 1800s, newly-elected President Thomas Jefferson appointed Lucas to a secret mission to St. Louis and New Orleans.

Lucas reported directly to the president on the sentiments of the Spaniards in those cities toward the United States, in preparation for Jefferson's efforts at westward expansion.

A grandson, Henry Van Noye Lucas, owned a major league baseball franchise in St. Louis in the late 19th century.