Robert F. Broussard

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Robert F. Broussard (1914)

Robert Foligny Broussard (born August 17, 1864 in New Iberia , Louisiana , †  April 12, 1918 in New Iberia) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Louisiana in both chambers of Congress .

Robert Broussard was born on the Mary Louise Plantation in Iberia Parish . He attended both public and private schools as a boy, before he graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC from 1879 to 1882 . Between 1885 and 1888 he worked as a customs inspector responsible for the late shifts in New Orleans ; thereafter he was appointed official statistician and remained so until 1889. That year he graduated from the Law School of Tulane University , was admitted to the bar and began to practice in New Iberia in his new profession. From 1892 to 1897 he was a district attorney in the 19th judicial district of Louisiana.

Eventually Broussard embarked on a political career. In 1896 he was elected for the first time as a representative of the third district of Louisiana to the House of Representatives of the United States , where he remained after eight re-elections until March 3, 1915. During this time he chaired the Ministry of Justice's expenditure control committee . Since he had already been prematurely elected to the US Senate by the state parliament on May 21, 1912 for the term of office beginning in 1915 , he ran for the last election to the House of Representatives in November of the same year. He is the only elected US Senator who was elected to the House of Representatives after his election to the Senate and served a full term there. He was a member of the Senate from March 4, 1915 and served, among other things, as chairman of the Committee on National Banks . However, he died three years later during a visit to his hometown of New Iberia, where he was buried.

After Walter Guion, who was provisionally appointed as successor, and Edward James Gay , who was victorious in the by-election , the class 3 Senate seat fell to Robert Broussard's brother Edwin in the following regular election in 1920 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senators elected in 1912 , "The Tribune almanac and political register 1913", accessed March 18, 2020
  2. ↑ Brouussard Obituaries in the Senate and House of Representatives , page 15, obituary by Senator Joseph E. Ransdell , accessed March 18, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Broussard, Robert F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broussard, Robert Foligny (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH near New Iberia , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1918
Place of death New Iberia