Edwin Sidney Broussard

Edwin Broussard won his brother's old Senate seat in 1920 by beating the former governor Jared Sanders, and beat him again in 1926. That second race came despite opposition from the Ku Klux Klan and New Orleans's Old Regulars over his Catholicism, and Huey Long's backing carried him. Broussard supported Long for governor in 1928 but opposed his 1930 Senate run. In 1932 John Overton, Long's choice, took the nomination, amid accusations of fraud. Broussard returned to his New Iberia law practice and died there on November 19, 1934.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 0.2 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 8.0 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.0 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.8 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• Robert Foligny Broussard — steps away
• Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Bouligny — steps away
• Old City Hall — steps away
• Louisiana's First Black Female Physician Dr. Emma Wakefield-Paillet — steps away