John Archer LeJeune

After nine years as Commandant, Lejeune retired in 1929 and became superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, a post he held until 1937. He died in Baltimore in 1942 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was named for him during the Second World War, and life-sized statues of him stand at its entrance and on this courthouse lawn. Nicknamed the Marine's Marine, he is honored by halls, ships and statues across the country.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 8.0 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 8.7 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 10 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 21 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball — steps away
• Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune — steps away
• Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré — steps away
• Major General Delesseps S. "Chep" Morrisson — steps away