William Freret
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William Fréret, né en 1804 à La Nouvelle-Orléans et mort le 14 juin 1864, est une personnalité politique de Louisiane et maire de La Nouvelle-Orléans. William Fréret partit pour l'Europe suivre une formation dans l'ingénierie et les arts mécaniques. Il revint en Louisiane travailler dans l'entreprise de cotonnade de son père. Ayant pris la succession de son père à la tête de l'entreprise de coton, celle-ci devint la première entreprise industrielle de Louisiane.
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William Alfred Freret, Sr. (1804 – June 14, 1864) was Mayor of New Orleans from May 10, 1840, to April 4, 1842, and again from February 27, 1843, to May 12, 1844. He was born in New Orleans, and was of mixed English and French descent; his father was an English merchant who settled in New Orleans and married a Creole woman. His father built on the boy's natural mechanical talent, sending him to Europe to be educated in engineering and the mechanical arts. He returned to New Orleans and eventually succeeded to his father's business of compressing cotton for shipment abroad. Under his direction, the Freret Cotton Press Company became the first large industrial firm in New Orleans, and propelled him to public visibility and a political career. Despite his mixed European heritage, he joined th
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William Fréret, né en 1804 à La Nouvelle-Orléans et mort le 14 juin 1864, est une personnalité politique de Louisiane et maire de La Nouvelle-Orléans. William Fréret partit pour l'Europe suivre une formation dans l'ingénierie et les arts mécaniques. Il revint en Louisiane travailler dans l'entreprise de cotonnade de son père. Ayant pris la succession de son père à la tête de l'entreprise de coton, celle-ci devint la première entreprise industrielle de Louisiane. Malgré sa mère d'origine créole, il a rejoint le "parti américain", un nouveau groupe politique qui a cherché à limiter l'influence sur les affaires publiques des "étrangers". Il a remporté, sous cette étiquette politique, l'élection municipale de 1840 par 1051 voix contre 942 à son prédécesseur Charles Genois. Sous son mandat municipal, il fut un administrateur tatillon connu pour ses inspections surprise des installations de la ville. Son mandat a été marquée par la poursuite du redressement des finances publiques de la ville par les effets combinés de l'emprunt et des dépenses des maires précédents avec en arrière fond, la crise nationale économique de 1837. À l'expiration de son mandat, il se représenta, mais fut battu par son adversaire Denis Prieur. Ce dernier ne resta que quelques mois à la tête de la municipalité. Il démissionna et fut remplacé par William Fréret. william Fréret se représenta pour un troisième mandat, mais fut de nouveau battu par un nouvel adversaire, Joseph Edgard Montegut. William Fréret est mort le 14 juin 1864 à La Nouvelle-Orléans. Il avait un fils, William Alfred Fréret, né à La Nouvelle-Orléans en 1833 et mort en 1911 qui fut un architecte. Il était également l'oncle de James Fréret, architecte également.
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William Alfred Freret, Sr. (1804 – June 14, 1864) was Mayor of New Orleans from May 10, 1840, to April 4, 1842, and again from February 27, 1843, to May 12, 1844. He was born in New Orleans, and was of mixed English and French descent; his father was an English merchant who settled in New Orleans and married a Creole woman. His father built on the boy's natural mechanical talent, sending him to Europe to be educated in engineering and the mechanical arts. He returned to New Orleans and eventually succeeded to his father's business of compressing cotton for shipment abroad. Under his direction, the Freret Cotton Press Company became the first large industrial firm in New Orleans, and propelled him to public visibility and a political career. Despite his mixed European heritage, he joined the Native American Party, a new political group that sought to limit the influence on public affairs of Creoles and other groups viewed as "foreign." Under its banner he won the 1840 mayoral election, with 1,051 votes to the 942 of his predecessor Charles Genois. His meticulous temperament made him one of the most efficient mayors in New Orleans' history; he was a hands-on administrator notorious for his surprise inspections of city facilities, for example. His term was marked by the continuation of the city's recovery from the combined effects of the borrowing and spending of previous mayors and the nationwide economic crisis of 1837; and hampered by the curious administration he inherited, in which the city was divided into three autonomous — and often acrimoniously competing — "Municipalities". Despite these difficulties, he succeeded in establishing a free public school system and obtaining backing for it at the state level. This is considered to be his greatest achievement. At the expiration of his term he ran for re-election but lost to Denis Prieur, a former mayor; who, however, was mayor for only eight months, resigning to take a state office. Freret was elected, this time as a Whig, to serve the remainder of Prieur's term. He ran for a third term in the elections of 1844; but they seem to have been marked by widespread fraud. In any case, he lost to Joseph Edgard Montegut. In 1850, he was appointed Collector of the Port of New Orleans by President Zachary Taylor. William Freret's remains were interred in New Orleans' St. Patrick Cemetery. The city's Freret Street was named for him.
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