John H. Kennard

He served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War,[3] in Fenner's Battery and the Louisiana Artillery,[1] and resumed the practice of law in New Orleans in 1865.

James Jack who brought the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and founding father John Hanson, who acted as the 1st President of the Confederation Congress.

[4][5] In November 1872, Governor Henry C. Warmoth appointed Kennard to a seat as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana,[6] and Kennard "filled the place with assiduity and distinction for about three months," after which he "was displaced by an adverse decision as to the title of his office arising from the political complications of that period".

[3] A few days before his death, he presided over a meeting of the alumni of his alma mater marking the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and seemed to be in good health.

[13] Judge Kennard lived at 149 Broadway in New York, in the Singer Building, and was a member of the Lotos Club.