Broussard was a senator from Louisiana and was a Democrat. He served from 1915 to 1919.
He was previously the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1907 to 1915; the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1905 to 1907; the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1903 to 1905; the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1901 to 1903; the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1899 to 1901; and the representative for Louisiana’s 3rd congressional district as a Democrat from 1897 to 1899.
![Photo of Sen. Robert Broussard [D-LA, 1915-1919]](/static/legislator-photos/401853-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Dec 1915 to Jun 1918, Broussard missed 301 of 645 roll call votes, which is 46.7%. This is much worse than the median of 29.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jun 1918. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
