Leon Jastremski

Leon Jastremski was a Confederate soldier, journalist, and the 3term mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During his mayoralty, he fought and was instrumental in keeping Baton Rouge the state capital. He wrote political articles as a newspaper editor, including an editorial noted for its advocacy of racial separatism between blacks and whites. In 1876, he joined the Ku Klux Klan and he was a founding member of the United Confederate Veterans, created in 1889.

Despite his Polish name and ethnic background, he was born in France and wrote to his own family in French. In his biography Pills, Pens, amp Politics, Pinkowski found numerous Polish immigrants in Baton Rouge existed during his time, but there is no convincing proof that he was friends with them or took a paternalistic attitude towards them as mayor. Leon Jastremskis documents and letters are held at Louisiana State University.

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