E. Wayles Browne, E. Carroll, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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E. Wayles Browne.  A firm of attorneys that ranks among the ablest in Louisiana 

is that of E. W. and P. N. Browne of Shreveport.  The senior partner has been 

in practice twenty years, is a native of Louisiana and a former member of the 

State Senate.  Mr. Browne also has offices in New Orleans, where he is associated 

with Mr. W. A. Porteous. Jr.



E. Wayles Browne was horn at Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish in 1879, 

son of Benjamin F. and Ella (Eppes) Browne.  His father was born in Alabama, 

and from that state moved to East Carroll Parish after the Civil war.  The 

maternal grand father of E. Wayles Browne was John Wayles Eppes, a prominent 

early citizen of what was then Carroll Parish where he located in the early 

'40s and became a slave owner and extensive planter.



E. Wayles Browne was liberally educated, taking his academic course in the 

Louisiana State University, and his law course in Tulane University.  He was 

graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1904, and after his admission to the bar, 

practiced at Lake Providence, his native town, but since May, 1906, has had 

his home in Shreveport.  His brother and partner is Percy N. Browne, and their 

law offices are at the Slattery Building.



Mr. Browne was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the State 

Legislature in 1917 to till the unexpired term of J. McW. Ford, and he was a 

member of the session of 1918.  He was elected to the State Senate without 

opposition, serving in the sessions of 1920 and 1922.  In both branches of 

the Legislature his influence and work were notable, and his name is associated 

with many of the beneficial laws enacted during those years.  He was the father 

and secured the passage of the Abatement Act, popularly known as the Injunction 

Act, a war measure, and he also sponsored and secured the passage of the Carbon 

Black Act and the Building Lien Law.



Mr. Browne is affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and is 

a member of the Civitan Club.  He married Miss Grace Hall Long.  Her father, 

the late B. W. Long, of Marshall, Texas, was for a number of years clerk of 

the courts of Harrison County in that state.  They have two children:  

E. Wayles Browne, Jr., now fifteen years of age, who will graduate in 1925 

from the Shreveport high school, and  Grace, aged twelve years.



Mr. Browne is a member of the American Bar Association and the Louisiana 

State Bar Associations and has held offices in both of these organizations.



NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the 

subject with his/her autograph.





A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 68, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.