Richard Hilaire Rousseau (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney)
b. 1815-02-09 d. 1872-09-14
Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Son of David Rousseau and Katherine Gaines Rousseau. Married to Mary Dozier Rousseau in November 1839. Father of Kate Rousseau and Emma I. Rousseau. Married to Jane Nolan Rousseau in 1845. Father of Samuel Rousseau and Lovell H. Rousseau, Jr. Studied law in Lexington, Kentucky. Attorney in Bloomfield, Indiana, in 1842. Attorney in Louisville in 1849. Partner with Lovell H. Rousseau in Rousseau & Rousseau law firm in Louisville after 1849. Attorney in Louisville in 1860.
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- White
Bibliography
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 12 (New York: James T. White & Company, 1904), 185.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 82.
Citation
Rousseau, Richard Hilaire. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204525 (November 12, 2026).
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