John Archer Lejeune

Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867 at Old Hickory Plantation near Lacour in Pointe Coupee Parish, the son of a Confederate captain. He attended the LSU preparatory program from 1881 to 1884, then entered the Naval Academy and graduated second of 32 in 1888. He commanded the 2nd Division in 1918, became the 13th Commandant in 1920, and was relieved in 1929. Then he ran the Virginia Military Institute until 1937. Camp Lejeune in North Carolina bears his name. He died in Baltimore on November 20, 1942 and lies at Arlington.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 0.2 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 0.7 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 0.9 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 5.0 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• The Founding of "Red Stick" — steps away
• Votes For Women — 0.2 mi
• Capture of Baton Rouge by Galvez, 1779 — 0.2 mi
• The Founding of Baton Rouge — 0.2 mi