Edwin S. Broussard
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United States Senator from Louisiana |
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In office March 4, 1921 – March 4, 1933 |
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| Preceded by | Edward J. Gay |
| Succeeded by | John H. Overton |
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December 4, 1874 Loreauville, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 19, 1934 (aged 59) New Iberia, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Resting place | St. Peter's Cemetery, New Iberia, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Progressive Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Marie Patout (m. 1904; his death 1934) |
| Children | 6 |
| Relatives | Robert F. Broussard (brother) |
| Alma mater | Tulane University Law School |
Edwin Sidney Broussard, I (December 4, 1874 – November 19, 1934), was a United States senator from Louisiana, with serve for two terms from March 5, 1921, to March 3, 1933.
Broussard was born in the village of Loreauville, Louisiana, and attended public schools. He graduated in 1896 from the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He taught for two years thereafter in the public schools of Iberia and St. Martin parishes.
At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Broussard volunteered for the United States Army. A captain in Cuba, in 1898 and 1899, he accompanied the Taft Commission to the Philippine Islands in 1899 and served as an assistant secretary. He returned to the United States in 1900 and graduated the next year from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. In 1901, he was admitted in 1901 to the bar and established his practice in New Iberia, the Iberia Parish seat of government.
Broussard was prosecuting attorney for the Louisiana 19th Judicial District from 1903 to 1908. Between 1914 and 1916, he affiliated with the Progressive Party, formed by Theodore Roosevelt, who had gained national attention for organizing the Rough Riders in the Spanish-Americna War. Broussard opposed the New Orleans Democratic party machine, known as the Old Regulars. Broussard ran unsuccessfully in 1916 for lieutenant governor on an intra-party Progressive ticket with gubernatorial candidate John M. Parker, another Roosevelt loyalist. Broussard lost to Fernand Mouton. Parker was defeated that year too by Ruffin G. Pleasant of Shreveport, but rebounded to victory for governor in 1920 as a Democrat.
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