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Broussard, Robert F

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 17, 1864, in Iberia, La. He became the nominee of the anti-lottery wing of the democratic party for the district attorneyship of the nineteenth judicial district of Louisiana, to which position he was elected at the state election of 1892, he being the only one of that wing of the democratic party elected in the district at that election. In 1894 he was unanimously renominated to the same position by the democratic party and re-elected at the election of that year; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.