BROUSSARD, I. A., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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I. A. BROUSSARD, LAFAYETTE.--I. A. Broussard, who has gained an extended and
enviable reputation as sheriff of Lafayette parish, is a young man, having
been born in Calcasieu parish, 1857.  He is the son of Dosety and Elvina
(Lyons) Broussard.  His father was born in Lafayette parish, but at the age of
eighteen years removed to Calcasieu parish, where he subsequently married, and
where he became a large stock raiser.  He died in Calcasieu parish at the age
of fifty years.  The mother of our subject was of an old Louisiana family, and
after the death of her husband, when I. A. was thirteen years of age, she
returned with her family to Lafayette parish.  Here I. A. Broussard received
his education.  From almost a child he had assisted his father in stock
raising; so, at the death of his father, he became early in life engaged in
that vocation, which he continued until he was elected sheriff in 1888.  Mr.
Broussard's popularity was evinced in that he received a majority of the one
thousand three hundred and sixty-four votes over his opponent.  Since his
instalment [sic] in office there has been nothing which Sheriff Broussard
believed to be in the line of his duty that he has not attempted, however
improbable the success may have appeared.  With what success he has performed
his official duty, his record will speak for itself.  By the radical course
which he has pursued, Mr. Broussard has received, from those who considered
themselves injured by him, sharp censure; but, that he has performed his
official duties with the greatest vigilance and most strict conscientiousness
no one denies, and many of those who were at the time disposed to censure the
course pursued by him are now his stanchest friends.  Sheriff Broussard has
hunted down criminals with remarkable precision, and has made captures of
fugitives from justice who had long evaded the law.  For one so unwavering he
is possessed of a generous and mild disposition, and he possesses those
prerequisites so necessary to one of his position.  Mr. Broussard was united
in marriage with Miss Debbie Doughtery, November 13, 1890.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p.
2003.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.