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Stephen Bennett Packard (April 25 1839 – January 31 1922) a native of Maine emerged as an important Republican politician in Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction. He was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1876.A captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War Packard was appointed United States marshal in New Orleans in 1871 during the administration of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
