Joseph Edgard Montegut [SEP] position held
Joseph Edgard Montegut
Joseph Edgard Montegut was the 15th mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, serving from May 13, 1844, to April 5, 1846.
Death.
Montegut died in 1880 and has a grave at the St. Louis Cemetery.
against two other candidates who split the Democratic Party vote, Guirot with  2,743, and former mayor Joseph Edgard Montegut with 1,614. By the end of his first term, Crossman had been so successful that he handily won his next election on April 3, 1848, 5,090 votes to 2,986 for the sole opposing candidate; his third term was secured by a much harder fought victory, with 4,984 votes to 4,452 for Bell, the Democratic candidate. His fourth and final term was the hardest fought,