About Abner Lawson Duncan
Lived 1750 – 1823 (aged 72–73). Abner Lawson Duncan was a politician.
Abner Lawson Duncan (died December 27, 1823) was a prominent Louisiana attorney, businessman, politician and aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans.
Duncan was a member of the "New Orleans Association" which included attorneys Edward Livingston and John R. Grymes, merchant John K. West, smuggler Pierre Laffite, and pirate Jean Laffite.
Duncan ran for governor as a Democratic-Republican during the Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1820, losing to Thomas B. Robertson.
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American lawyer
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Abner Lawson Duncan was born in 1750.
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Abner Lawson Duncan died on 27 December 1823 in Louisiana.
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Abner Lawson Duncan was a politician.
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