Alexander Etienne de Clouet (June 7, 1812 – June 26, 1890) attended Georgetown College in the 1820s and was a Louisiana planter and politician.1
He was born in Louisiana, in the Parish of St. Martin, and attended local schools and Georgetown College before enrolling at the Jesuit College in Bardstown, Kentucky. After graduating from Bardstown in 1829 and touring Europe, he briefly studied law and then focused his attention on running his plantation. In 1837, he was elected to the Louisiana State legislature. After playing a prominent role in the Louisiana secession convention in 1861, he was elected to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States and was one of the signers of the constitution for the Confederate States. He served as colonel in the 26th Louisiana Regiment during the Civil War but was forced to resign his commission for health reasons. He is buried in Saint Michael's Catholic Cemetery, St. Martinville, Louisiana.2
His family’s papers are housed in the Acadiana Manuscripts Collection, University Archives & Manuscripts, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
