Education
Tulane University; Tulane University Law School.
Tulane University; Tulane University Law School.
He served in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War, in the New Orleans Guard Regiment of Infantry, then in Boone"s Louisiana Artillery. He was captured at Portuguese Hudson, Louisiana in July, 1863. Paroled shortly afterward, and subsequently exchanged, he entered Legardeur"s artillery battery, and continued in the Confederate service till the close of the war, when he surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, returning to New Orleans on foot.
He read law at the Tulane University Law School, graduating in 1868, and served as an attorney until 1892.
In 1892 he gave up the law to accept the presidency of the Merchants" Insurance Company, an important firm which was eventually liquidated. Foreign thirteen years Capdevielle was its president
His political history began in 1877, when he was appointed to the State School Board by Governor Nicholls. His tenure as mayor was marked by the installation of the modern sewage and drainage system and by the Robert Charles race riots.
After his mayoral term, Capdevielle served as president of the New Orleans Public Library Board and as State Auditor of Public Accounts.
He is buried in Saint Louis Cemetery Number.
While he was a member of this body the entire state school system was reorganized and put into effective operation. Subsequently he was appointed a member of the New Orleans Levee Board.