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BROUSSARD, Robert Foligny

BROUSSARD, Robert Foligny
Library of Congress
BROUSSARD, Robert Foligny
1864–1918

Office

Representative, Senator

State/Territory

Louisiana

Party

Democrat

Congress(es)

55th (1897–1899), 56th (1899–1901), 57th (1901–1903), 58th (1903–1905), 59th (1905–1907), 60th (1907–1909), 61st (1909–1911), 62nd (1911–1913), 63rd (1913–1915), 64th (1915–1917), 65th (1917–1919)

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Concise Biography

BROUSSARD, Robert Foligny, (brother of Edwin Sidney Broussard), a Representative and a Senator from Louisiana; born on the 'Mary Louise' plantation, near New Iberia, Iberia Parish, La., August 17, 1864; attended public and private schools; attended Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1879-1882; night inspector of customs in New Orleans 1885-1888, when he was appointed assistant weigher and statistician 1888-1889; studied law at Tulane University, New Orleans, La., graduating in 1889; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New Iberia; elected prosecuting attorney of the nineteenth judicial district 1892-1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-third Congress); did not seek renomination in 1914, having become a candidate for Senator; elected as a Democrat in 1914 to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in New Iberia, La., April 12, 1918; chairman, Committee on National Banks (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); interment in the Catholic Cemetery.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library

Natchitoches, LA
Papers: 1 bound volume (January 26, 1919) of memorial addresses presented in the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives in the Keyser collection, 1919-1973.

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection

Lafayette, LA
Papers: 1895-1918. 40.4 linear feet. Chiefly congressional papers. Topics include sugar tariff, intracoastal canal, Civil War claims, and World War I. Available on microfilm. Finding aid.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

U.S. Congress. Robert F. Broussard (Late a Senator from Louisiana): Memorial Addresses Delivered in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States. 65th Cong., 3d sess., 1918-1919. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919.

Wakefield, Ann. "The Broussard Papers of the University of Southwestern Louisiana: New Light on Louisiana Progressivism." Louisiana History 31 (Summer 1990): 293-300.

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