Hon. Judge John Clegg, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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The judge of the court of appeals for the third circuit of Louisiana, Hon. Judge John Clegg,
Lafayette, is a native of North Carolina, born l852. He removed with his parents to Louisiana
in 1859. Judge Clegg is the son of Baxter and T. L. (Collins) Clegg, both natives of North
Carolina.  His father is of Welsh and Irish parentage, and his mother of English.  Rev. Baxter
Clegg was a prominent minister of the Methodist church.  For a period of years Rev. Clegg was
president of the board of education of North Carolina.  He founded a school of high grade in
that state, which, with a competent corps of teachers, he conducted for a number of years with
success.  In 1859 he was made president of Homer college, Homer, La., in which capacity he
served for a number of years.  He died in 1884. Judge Clegg's mother died in 1886.  The
subject of our sketch was wholly educated under the tutorage of his father.  In 1872 he began
the study of law in the office of Hon. M. E. Girard. of Lafayette.  He subsequently pursued a
course of law study in Tulane university, from which institution he graduated in 1874.  He was
admitted to the bar before the supreme court at Opelousas, June, 1874, and immediately after he
began the practice of law in Lafayette.  He was secretary of the senate from 1877 until 1881,
inclusive, when he was made district judge and served three years.  Upon the expiration of his
term Judge Clegg was elected by the general assembly judge of the court of appeals, for the
third circuit, comprising the parishes of Grant, Rapides, Avoyelles. St. Landry, Lafayette,
Iberia, Vermillion, Cameron, Calcasieu, Acadia and Vernon.  His term of office will expire in
1892.  Judge Clegg was married in 1882 to Miss Mary Cage, the accomplished daughter of Albert
G. Cage, of Terre Bonne parish.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana,  (vol. 2), pp. 473-474.  Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.