Pierre Caliste Landry, born April 19, 1841 in Louisiana, became the first African-American to be elected mayor in the United States. He was elected as mayor of Donaldsonville, Louisiana in 1868. Landry was born into slavery on a sugar cane plantation in Ascension Parish.
At the end of the Civil War, Landry moved his family to Donaldsonville and was elected mayor during the Reconstruction Era in 1868. He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1872. He was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 1874 and served until 1880.
He passed away in December 1921.
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