George Patout Broussard, Sr. (September 17, 1916 – August 30, 1977), was a decorated World War II

World War II

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 United States Army

United States Army

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 officer, the son of a United States senator

United States Senate

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, and a veterinarian

Veterinarian

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 from New Iberia, Louisiana

New Iberia, Louisiana

New Iberia is a city in and the parish seat of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, 30 miles southeast of Lafayette. In 1900, 6,815 people lived in New Iberia; in 1910, 7,499; and in 1940, 13,747...

, who conducted important research on the disease

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s anaplasmosis

Anaplasmosis

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 and brucellosis

Brucellosis

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.

Broussard was born in New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish in the sugar

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-producing region of south Louisiana

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, to Senator Edwin Sidney Broussard, I

Edwin S. Broussard

Edwin Sidney Broussard I was a United States senator from Louisiana. He was born in the village of Loureauville in Iberia Parish in the sugar-growing country of south Louisiana and attended public schools. He graduated from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1896. He taught in the...

, and the former Marie C. Patout. He was also a paternal nephew

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 of U.S. Senator Robert F. Broussard

Robert F. Broussard

Robert Foligny Broussard was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Louisiana. He was born on the Mary Louise plantation near New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish. He attended public and private schools. Broussard attended the Catholic Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from...

 of New Iberia. He was educated in Washington, D.C.

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, New Iberia High School

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, and Texas A&M University

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 in College Station

College Station, Texas

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, where he received his D.V.M. degree.

He was activated on June 29, 1941, as a first lieutenant

Lieutenant

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, Fourth Corps (Cavalry

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) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina

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. He was subsequently stationed in the South Pacific in New Caledonia

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 and later in San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

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. He was discharged on December 13, 1945, with the rank of major. He was awarded both the Bronze Star

Bronze Star Medal

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  and the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon in the Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal

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 and Coral Sea

Coral Sea

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 campaign.

In 1946, Dr. Broussard resumed his practice of veterinary medicine in New Iberia. On June 21, 1947, he married the former Flora Therese Schwing of New Iberia, the daughter of John Elmer Schwing, an attorney

Lawyer

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 and banker, and the former Anna Blanchet. The couple had six sons: George P., Jr. (born 1949), Edwin S., III (born 1951), Thomas S. (born 1953), Daniel S. (born 1954), Kenneth J.S. (born 1961), and Ben Jacques (born 1963).

Broussard was a member of the Boy Scouts

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 Evangeline Council, the American and Louisiana veterinary medical associations, the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Board of Examiners, the Iberia Cattle

Cattle

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man's Association, and the Attakapas Historical

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 Association.

Dr. Broussard was a member of St. Peter's Catholic

Catholic

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Church in New Iberia. He died in New Iberia and is interred in the Holy Family Cemetery Mausoleum there.