Frank A. Monroe

Frank Adair Monroe was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from March 22, 1899, to January 2, 1922, serving as chief justice from April 5, 1914, on.

Biography

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Monroe's grandfather was Thomas Bell Monroe, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky. Monroe was raised in Frankfort, Kentucky, and was enrolled as a cadet at the Kentucky Military Institute at the beginning of the American Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army during the war, where he was wounded in 1863, and was captured and held by Union forces for eight months.
He served for one month as Judge of Third District Court in 1872, when he was dispossessed. He was in the White League. He was re-elected as a judge in 1876, and was a judge of the Civil District Court from 1880 to 1899. He was a member Constitutional Convention of 1898. He succeeded Judge Breaux as Chief Justice through seniority in April 1914. He retired from the court in 1921.

Personal life and death

He married Alice Blane in 1878, and they had ten children.
Frank A. Monroe died in New Orleans on January 16, 1927.