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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—LouisianaEdwin Sidney BROUSSARD
(1874-1934)
Senate Years of Service:
1921-1933Party: DemocratBROUSSARD, Edwin Sidney,
(brother of Robert Foligny Broussard), a Senator from Louisiana;
born near Loreauville, in Iberia Parish, La., December 4, 1874;
attended the public schools and was graduated from the Louisiana
State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton
Rouge in 1896; taught in the public schools of Iberia and St.
Martin Parishes 1896-1898; at the outbreak of the Spanish-American
War volunteered for service and served as a captain in Cuba
1898-1899; accompanied the Taft Commission to the Philippine
Islands in 1899 and served as an assistant secretary; returned to
the United States in 1900; was graduated from the law department of
Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1901; admitted to the bar
the same year, and commenced practice in New Iberia, La.;
prosecuting attorney for the nineteenth district of Louisiana
1903-1908; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1916;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1920;
reelected in 1926 and served from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1933;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed the
practice of law in New Iberia, La., where he died on November 19,
1934; interment in St. Peters Cemetery.
Bibliography
Wakefield, Ann. “The Broussard Papers of the University of
Southwestern Louisiana: New Light on Louisiana
Progressivism.” Louisiana History 31 (Summer 1990):
293-300.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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