Algernon Sidney Badger Algernon Sidney Badger ( October 28 , 1839 – May 9 , 1905 ) was a colonel in the Union Army who became an important Republican carpetbagger government official in New Orleans , Louisiana , during and after Reconstruction . Early years . Sharing the name of the English politician , Algernon Sidney , who was executed for treason against Charles II , Badger was born in Boston , Massachusetts , to John Baton Badger and the former Sarah Payne Sprague . He was educated at Milton Academy in Milton , Massachusetts , the birthplace of U . S . President George Herbert Walker Bush . Badger volunteered for service in the American Civil War with the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry , later the 26th Infantry . He was sent to New Orleans as an infantry lieutenant . In 1863 , he enlisted in the First Louisiana Union Cavalry in command of Company D . He rose to lieutenant colonel and then colonel for " faithful and meritorious service " in the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay in Mobile , Alabama . That same year , he was wounded in battle at False River in southern Pointe Coupee Parish , Louisiana . Political offices . After the war , Badger became a clerk in Fourth District Recorders Court in New Orleans . About 1868 , he joined the New Orleans Metropolitan Police and was elevated to the superintendency in 1870 . On September 14 , 1874 , Badger was seriously wounded at the Battle of Liberty Place , an insurrection by the Crescent City White League . Badger left the police force in 1875 to serve as state tax collector in New Orleans . In 1878 , during the administration of Republican President Rutherford B . Hayes of Ohio , Badger was named postmaster at New Orleans . After a year , he took another patronage position , special deputy in the New Orleans Customs House , a position that he filled until 1885 , when the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland of New York replaced him . In 1889 , with the return of a Republican administration under Benjamin Harrison of Indiana , Badger was named special deputy of the customs service , and then in 1890 the appraiser of merchandise at New Orleans , a post which again ended in 1893 with the return of Cleveland to the presidency . Badger returned to the appraiser position about 1900 , with the Republican William McKinley administration , and held that final position until his death in 1905 at the age of sixty - five . Family and civic life . Badger was twice married . On April 30 , 1872 , he wed the former Elizabeth Florence Parmele , daughter of Frederick F . and Jane Parmele . The couple had four children , Sidney ( born ca . 1873 ) , Frederick Parmele ( born ca . 1874 ) , John Algernon ( born 1876 ) , and Harry ( born 1877 ) . Elizabeth died in 1880 , and on September 9 , 1882 , Badger married the former Blanche B . Blineau , the daughter of John Blineau and the former Amelia Dechamps . From the second marriage , he had two other children , George Chester Badger ( born 1883 ) and Marion ( born 1885 ; later Mrs . C . E . Benton Wells ) . Badger on more than one occasion led the New Orleans Mardi Gras procession of the Krewe of Rex in his capacity as police superintendent . In one appearance , some in the crowd lampooned him as a " sleuthing bloodhound with a large protruding nose . " Badger was a member and officer of the Grand Army of the Republic veterans organization . He was a grand commander of Knights Templar and a member of the Masonic lodge . He was Episcopalian . Badger died in New Orleans and is interred there at Metairie Cemetery .