Robert Foligny Broussard
Democrat Senator of Louisiana
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
March 15, 1897 - March 3, 1899
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
December 4, 1899 - March 3, 1901
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
December 2, 1901 - March 3, 1903
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
November 9, 1903 - March 3, 1905
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
December 4, 1905 - March 3, 1907
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
December 2, 1907 - March 3, 1909
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
March 15, 1909 - March 3, 1911
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
April 4, 1911 - March 3, 1913
Representative
Louisiana, district 3
April 7, 1913 - March 3, 1915
Senator
Louisiana
December 6, 1915 - April 12, 1918
11
Congresses Served
9
House Terms
1
Senate Terms
August 17, 1864 (53 years old)
Birthday
April 12, 1918
Death
- Served as both a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Louisiana.
- Attended Georgetown University and graduated from Tulane University Law School.
- Worked as a night inspector of customs and later as an assistant weigher and statistician in New Orleans.
- Elected as prosecuting attorney for the Nineteenth Judicial District from 1892 to 1897.
- Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1897 and served until 1915, participating in eight consecutive Congresses.
- Chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice during the Sixty-third Congress.
- Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1912 and served until his death in 1918, also chairing the Committee on National Banks.
- Introduced the “American Hippo Bill” in 1910, which aimed to address meat shortages and invasive plant species in Louisiana.
- Member of The Boston Club of New Orleans.