Judge Carter Bassett, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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The popular Judge Carter Bassett, St. Martinville, was born in Washington, D. C., l822.  He is
the son of William H. and Eleanor (O'Neill) Bassett.  Judge Bassett's father was for many years
the captain of a vessel on the Atlantic.  After the year 1834 he was engaged in planting.  The
subject's mother died in 1852 and his father in 1873.  Judge Bassett is the eldest of a family
of nine children.  Planting has been his principal occupation in life.  At the breaking out of
the war he enlisted in the confederate service, serving in the Second Louisiana regiment.  He
was wounded in the battle of Malvern Hill three times within the space of as many seconds,
though not seriously.  He enlisted as a private, but was subsequently promoted a captain, with
staff appointment.  He removed to St. Martin parish in 1870; was elected justice of the peace
in 1871, which office he shortly after resigned, to accept an appointment as parish surveyor.
He was elected judge of St. Martin parish in 1876, and re-elected in l878.  In this capacity he
served until the office was abolished by the constitution of 1879.  Judge Bassett married, in
1868, Miss Eugenie Richard, daughter of G. and Cora (Delahoussaye) Richard.  They became the
parents of seven children:  Amélie,  Eleanor,  Coralie,  Eugene,  Virginia,  William J. and
Alice.  Judge Bassett has always been a conservative in politics, and takes an active part in
all public affairs.  He and his family are Catholics.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 469-470.  Published by the
Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.