| Frank A. Monroe | |
| Birth Name: | Frank Adair Monroe |
| Birth Date: | 30 August 1844 |
| Birth Place: | Annapolis, Maryland |
| Death Place: | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Occupation: | Jurist |
| Children: | 10 |
| Education: | Kentucky Military Institute |
| Signature: | Signature of Frank Adair Monroe.png |
| Office: | Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court |
| Term Start: | March 22, 1899 |
| Term End: | January 2, 1922 |
Frank Adair Monroe (August 30, 1844 – January 16, 1927) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from March 22, 1899, to January 2, 1922, serving as chief justice from April 5, 1914, on.[1] [2]
Born in Annapolis, Maryland,[3] Monroe's grandfather was Thomas Bell Monroe, a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky.[1] Monroe was raised in Frankfort, Kentucky, and was enrolled as a cadet at the Kentucky Military Institute at the beginning of the American Civil War.[1] He served in the Confederate Army during the war,[3] where he was wounded in 1863, and was captured and held by Union forces for eight months.[1]
He served for one month as Judge of Third District Court in 1872, when he was dispossessed. He was in the White League. He was re-elected as a judge in 1876, and was a judge of the Civil District Court from 1880 to 1899. He was a member Constitutional Convention of 1898. He succeeded Judge Breaux as Chief Justice through seniority in April 1914.[3] He retired from the court in 1921.[4]
He married Alice Blane in 1878, and they had ten children.[5]
Frank A. Monroe died in New Orleans on January 16, 1927.[6]