{{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Charles Parlange | honorific_suffix = | image = Charles Parlange.jpg | alt = | caption = | office1 = [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]] | term_start1 = 1892 | term_end1 = 1893 | governor1 = [[Murphy J. Foster]] | predecessor1 = [[James Jeffries (Louisiana politician)|James Jeffries]] | successor1 = [[Hiram R. Lott]] | office2 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana]] | term_start2 = January 15, 1894 | term_end2 = February 4, 1907 | nominator2 = | appointer2 = [[List of federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland|Grover Cleveland]] | predecessor2 = [[Edward Coke Billings]] | successor2 = [[Eugene Davis Saunders]] | office3 = Member of the [[Louisiana Senate]] | term3 = 1880-1885 | pronunciation = | birth_name = Charles Parlange | birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|07|23}} | birth_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1907|02|04|1851|07|23}} | death_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] | death_cause = | resting_place = [[Metairie Cemetery]]<br>[[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = [[Virginie de Ternant]] | father = | relatives = | education = [[Centenary College of Louisiana|Centenary College]]<br>[[read law]] | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }} '''Charles Parlange''' (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907) was a Louisiana state senator, [[United States attorney]], [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana|Louisiana lieutenant governor]] serving under Governor [[Murphy J. Foster]], associate justice of the [[Louisiana Supreme Court]], and [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana]].
==Education and career==
Born on July 23, 1851, in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]],<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|1842|nid=1386116|name=Charles Parlange<!--(1851–1907)-->}}</ref> Parlange attended [[Centenary College of Louisiana]] and [[read law]] in 1873.<ref name="auto"/> He entered private practice in [[Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana|Pointe Coupee Parish]], Louisiana from 1873 to 1880.<ref name="auto"/> He was named United States Commissioner from Louisiana to the [[Exposition Universelle (1878)|Paris Exposition of 1878]] and was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1879.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} He was a member of the [[Louisiana State Senate]] from 1880 to 1885.<ref name="auto"/> He was the [[United States Attorney]] for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1885 to 1889.<ref name="auto"/> He resumed private practice in New Orleans from 1889 to 1892.<ref name="auto"/> He was the [[Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana]] from 1892 to 1893.<ref name="auto"/> He was an associate justice of the [[Supreme Court of Louisiana]] from 1893 to 1894.<ref name="auto"/>
==Federal judicial service==
Parlange was nominated by President [[Grover Cleveland]] on December 11, 1893, to a seat on the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana]] vacated by Judge [[Edward Coke Billings]].<ref name="auto"/> He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on January 15, 1894, and received his commission the same day.<ref name="auto"/> His service terminated on February 4, 1907, due to his death in New Orleans.<ref name="auto"/> He was interred in [[Metairie Cemetery]] in New Orleans.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}
==Family==
Parlange was the son of Charles and [[Virginie de Ternant|Virginie (Trahan) Parlange]] of Pointe Coupee Parish.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} During his childhood he resided at [[Parlange Plantation House|Parlange Plantation]] near [[New Roads, Louisiana|New Roads]], Louisiana.{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}} He was the uncle of [[Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau]], better known as Madame X of [[John Singer Sargent]]'s [[Portrait of Madame X|celebrated portrait]].
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==Sources== * {{FJC Bio|1842|nid=1386116|name=Charles Parlange<!--(1851–1907)-->}}
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