Carleton, Henry
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1785, in Virginia. He served as a lieutenant of infantry under Gen. Jackson in the campaign that terminated Jan. 8, 1815, and then actively engaged in the profession of law. Soon afterward, in connection with Mr. L. Moreau, he began the translation of those portions of Las Siete Partidas, a celebrated Spanish code of laws, that were observed in Louisiana. He became United States district attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana in 1832, and was subsequently appointed a judge of the supreme court of the same state, but resigned in 1839 on account of ill health.
He published Liberty and Necessity; and read an Essay on the Will before the American Philosophical society a few days before his death. He died March 28, 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa.