Biography of 	Charles De B. Claiborne, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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Charles De B. Claiborne has been a lawyer and banker in New Orleans for a quarter 
of a century, being vice president of the Whitney-Central National Bank.  He is a 
son of Judge Charles F. and Amelie (Soniat du Fossat) Claiborne.  His great-grand
father was a distinguished first governor of Louisiana.  Of these and other members 
of the Claiborne family in Louisiana full particulars are given on other biographical 
pages.

Charles de B. Claiborne was born in New Orleans, in 1879, and has enjoyed the best 
advantages accorded by social position and culture.  He was educated by private 
tutors, in Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., and graduated LL. B. in 1901 
from Tulane University.  Mr. Claiborne was active in the practice of the law for 
about fifteen years. Since 1916 he has given all his time to his duties as vice 
president of the Whitney-Central National Bank.

He is a republican, a member of the Boston Club, Louisiana Club and Stratford Club.  
He married, in 1903, Miss Virginia Couturie, daughter of Felix Couturie of New Orleans.  
Their three children are:  Virginia,  Martha and  Charles, Jr.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 362, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.