1. Pierre Derbigny first went to Saint-Domingue, and then arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and married Felicite Odile de Hault de Lassus with whom he had five daughters and two sons.
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Pierre Derbigny moved, first to Missouri, then Florida, and finally to Louisiana, arriving in New Orleans, then a Spanish colony, in 1797.
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Pierre Derbigny led a movement to establish the College of Orleans and served as Regent.
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Pierre Derbigny served in Captain Chauveneau's Company of cavalry in the Louisiana Militia.
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Pierre Derbigny resigned from the Legislature to become a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
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Pierre Derbigny's nomination was first rejected by the Senate, but was afterwards returned and confirmed at the Senate's request.
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Pierre Derbigny served as a Justice from 1814 to 1820.
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Pierre Derbigny was one of the principal drafters of the 1825 Civil Code of Louisiana, along with Edward Livingston, Francois Xavier Martin, and Louis Moreau-Lislet.
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Pierre Derbigny was affiliated with the nascent National Republican Party, an anti-Jackson group.
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On October 3,1829, after ten months in office, Governor Pierre Derbigny was thrown from a carriage and died three days later, in Gretna, Louisiana.
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Pierre Derbigny was interred in Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1 in New Orleans.
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Pierre Derbigny's son Charles Zenon Derbigny was a candidate for governor.