BROUSSARD, Robert F., Iberia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical
Section
Date: 21 Oct 1998



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ROBERT F. BROUSSARD, NEW IBERIA.--Robert F. Broussard, a rising young
attorney of the New Iberia bar, is a native of Louisiana; born in Iberia
parish in 1864.  He is a son of John D. Broussard, whose sketch appears
above.  Robert F. is the second of six living children.  He was educated
at Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.  After leaving college, in
1883, Mr. Broussard took charge of the export desk of the Statistics
Department in the Custom House at New Orleans, under the Cleveland
administration.  He subsequently pursued a course of law in the law
school at Tulane University, graduating from that institution in 1889. 
He was admitted to the bar the same year and immediately began the
practice of his profession in New Iberia, as a member of the law firm of
Foster & Broussard, now the firm of Renoudet, Foster & Broussard.  Mr.
Broussard is rapidly rising in his profession and promises to become one
of the first members of the bar of New Iberia.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 93-94.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.