he was made prize commissioner and advocated the reopening of the U.S. courts and in January, 1864, purchased and conducted the New Orleans True Delta in the interest of emancipation. He was elected and inaugurated the first free state governor of Louisiana March 4, 1864. and was recognized by the U.S. congress..png)
He was appointed military governor by President Lincoln March 15, 1864. Henry F. Allen exercised authority as governor over the portions of the state under Confederate control, and Governor Hahn continued in office till January, 1865, when he was elected U.S. senator, and he resigned the governorship, but did not press his claim to a seat in the senate, and B. F. Flanders was appointed military governor. In 1867 Hahn became editor of the New Orleans Republican and was made administrator of the charity hospital of New Orleans. In 1871 he removed to a sugar plantation in St. Charles parish where he founded the village of Hahnville. He was a representative in the state legislature. 1872–76; superintendent of the U.S. mint at New Orleans, 1878; U.S. district judge, 1879–85, and representative from the second district in the 49th congress, 1885–86. He died in Washington, D.C., March 15, 1886.
MAID, Leo, R.C. bishop. was born in Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., July 15, 1849. He received his primary education at St. Vincent's college. Beatty. Westmoreland county, and pursued his theological course at St. Vincent's Abbey, where he entered as a novitiate, Oct. 5, 1872, and was ordained a priest, Dec. 21, 1872, by Bishop Domenec of Pittsburg. He was made chaplain and instructor of lay-brothers, and professor of theology. On July 14, 1885. he was elected abbot of Mary Help abbey, Belmont, Gaston county, N.C., the election being confirmed by Rome. Aug. 30. 1885, and he also filled the chair of moral theology. He was consecrated as a mitred abbot, Nov. 26. 1885, by Bishop Northrop of Charleston. He was appointed vicar apostolic of North Carolina by brief dated, Dec. 7, 1887, and was consecrated at Baltimore, July 1, 1888, by Cardinal Gibbons, his title being Bishop of Messene. He erected St. Benedict's church and school for colored persons at Belmont and greatly extended the work of the church in North Carolina where Cardinal Gibbons first broke the
