page_title: Samuel D. McEnery
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel D. McEnery / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs Samuel D. McEnery
context_page_description: Samuel Douglas McEnery served as the 30th Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, with service from 1881 until 1888. He was subsequently a U.S. senator from 1897 until 1910. He was the brother of John McEnery, one of the candidates in the contested 1872 election for governor.
context_section_description: McEnery was born in Monroe in Ouachita Parish in North Louisiana.  He attended Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.  In 1859, McEnery graduated from the State and National Law School in Poughkeepsie, New York.  McEnery served as a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
caption: Mrs Samuel D. McEnery
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