- Robert F. Broussard
Robert Foligny Broussard (
August 17 ,1864 -April 12 ,1918 ) was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator fromLouisiana . He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, the seat ofIberia Parish . He attended public and private schools. Broussard attended theCatholic Georgetown University inWashington, D.C. , from 1879 to 1882. He was a night inspector ofcustoms inNew Orleans from 1885 to 1888, when he was appointed assistant weigher andstatistician . He held that position in 1888-1889. He studiedlaw atTulane University in New Orleans and graduated in 1889. He was admitted to the bar the same year and launched his practice in New Iberia. He was electedprosecuting attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial District and held that office from 1892 to 1897.Broussard was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (
March 4 ,1897 -March 3 ,1915 ). While in the House of Representative, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-third Congress); he did not seek renomination in 1914, having become a candidate for Senator. He was elected in 1914 to the Senate and served fromMarch 4 ,1915 , until his death the next year in New Iberia ; while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee onNational Bank s (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses).Interment was in the Catholic Cemetery in New Iberia.
Edwin Sidney Broussard, I, Robert's younger brother, also practiced law in New Iberia and was elected to succeed Robert in the U.S. Senate.
One of Broussard's nephews,
George P. Broussard (1916-1977), was a veterinary medical researcher in New Iberia.References
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