William C. C. Claiborne

William Charles Cole Claiborne (c. 1773-75 – November 23, 1817) is an American politician, best known as the first non-colonial Governor of Louisiana.

He also has the distinction of possibly being the youngest Congressman in U.S. history, though reliable sources differ about his age.

Claiborne supervises the transfer of Louisiana to U.S. control after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803; and he governs the "Territory of Orleans" from 1804 through 1812, the year in which Louisiana becomes a state.

He wins the first election for Louisiana's state Governor and served through 1816, for a total of thirteen years as Louisiana's executive administrator. (New Orleans serves as the capital city during both the colonial period and the early statehood period.)

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