Biography of 	Denechaud, Charles Isidore Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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Charles Isidore Denechaud, New Orleans, attorney with offices in the Hibernia 
Building, has practiced in his native city for nearly a quarter of a century.  
Many other interests distinguish him among New Orleans attorneys, particularly 
his activities as a Catholic layman.

He was born at New Orleans, January 3, 1879, son of Edward Francis and Juanita 
(Del Trigo) Denechaud, and represents two of the old French and Spanish families 
of Louisiana.  His mother, who died January 28, 1921, was a daughter of Juan 
Antonio Del Trigo, who came from Spain, and Louise Agate Herpeux, who came from 
France.  Edward Francis Denechaud was born in Bordeaux, France, of French parents, 
and came to New Orleans in 1838.  He was the builder of the old Denechaud Hotel, 
a noted hostelry of New Orleans for many years, now known as the De Soto Hotel on 
Baronne Street.  He died March 16, 1916.

Charles Isidore Denechaud was educated in the public schools and at the Jesuit 
College of New Orleans, and in 1901 graduated with the law degree from Tulane 
University, and received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1923, and created 
by Pope Pius XI, Knight of St. Gregory in 1924.  He was admitted to the bar in 1901, 
and since that year has carried on a successful practice, devoting his the exclusively 
to the civil branch of the law.  He is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association and 
the New Orleans Bar Association, and since 1914 has been professor of civil law in 
Loyola University.  He is a worker and leader in democratic campaigns, is a member 
of the Board of Commissioners of the New Orleans City Park; was a member of the Working
Woman and Children's Commission of Louisiana; is Director of the Civilian's Relief with 
the New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross; Director of Marquette Association for
Higher Association; Director and Counsel of the American Bank & Trust Company, New Orleans;
Director of the Union Indemnity Company, and is a member of the New Orleans Association of
Commerce; the National Civic Federation and the Louisiana Historical Society.

Mr. Denechaud is a member of the Catholic School Board for the diocese of New Orleans; 
is a director of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum; is treasurer and member of tine executive 
committee of the National Council of Catholic Men; was president from 1908 to 1912 of 
the Federation of the Catholic Societies of Louisiana; was national president from 1912 
to 1914 of the American Federation of Catholic Societies; was president from 1916 to 1918 
of the Jesuit Alumnae Association; contributed articles for magazines and journals, naming 
them "The Catholics of the South" for the Catholic Builders of the Nation, 1923; is chairman 
of the Diocesan Seminary Fund for the Arch-Diocese of New Orleans; national treasurer and 
member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Catholic Men, and during the 
World war served as overseas commissioner of the National Catholic War Council of the United 
States in charge of relief work at headquarters in Paris from December, 1918, until April, 
1920.

Mr. Denechaud is a past district deputy and past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, 
and a member of the Chess, Checker and Whist Club, the Round Table Club, Audubon Golf Club, 
the Southern Yacht Club and the Pickwick Chub.  He married, October 30, 1907, Miss Rose M. 
Stafford, of Almone, Ontario, Canada.  His home is at 5115 St. Charles Avenue.

NOTE:  The sketch is accompanied by a black and white photograph/drawing of the subject.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 385-386, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.