Julien J. Monette

Julien Joseph Monette (18361886) was an officer during the American Civil War and a state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era.

Biography His father Pierre Monette was from Haiti

Monette was a captain in the 6th Louisiana Volunteers during the American Civil War.

He was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 1868 to the third district for Orleans and St. Bernard parishes along with T. V. Coupland.

In 1871 he was noted as owning $700 worth of Orleans Parish real estate.

In April 1874 Monette was elected treasurer of the Radical Republican party of the eighth ward.

Monette ran for the senate again in 1876 when he nominated on the Republican ticket for the third senatorial district. He lost to P. A. Ducros Jr. but contended the result with J. Henry Burch presenting his petition to the senate in January 1877. In March 1877 the case was taken before the senate and Monette won by 16 to 3, with 17 absent, he was declared to be seated, subject to contest.

After the Reconstruction era he left Louisiana and moved to Central America. He died in Panama in 1886.