Hon. Arsene Paulin Pujo; Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Hon. Arsene Paulin Pujo, who for over thirty years had practiced law at Lake Charles, has a national record through his leadership in Congress, and particularly is well remembered outside of Louisiana on account of the important services rendered some dozen years ago by the Pujo Investigating Committee. He was born near Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish, December 16, 1861, son of Paul and Eloise L. (Le Bleu) Pujo, his mother a native of the same parish, while his father was born in France and came to Louisiana in 1840. Arsene Paulin Pujo attended public and private schools at Lake Charles, studied law under Judge G. A. Fournet, and was admitted to practice in 1886. He was a member of the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1898. His service in Congress was from 1903 to 1913, including the Fifty- eighth to the Sixty-second Congresses. He represented the Seventh Louisiana District. In 1912 he was a candidate for the United States Senate. His conspicuous service was rendered as chairman of the committee on banking and currency in the Sixty-second Congress, and as chairman of the subcommittee making the money trust investigation that year. During the World war he served as chairman of the district board for the Western District of Louisiana, under the Selective Service Act. Mr. Pujo married December 16. 1839, Miss Gussie Brown, daughter of Dr. S. M. Brown of Orange, Texas. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 226-227, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.