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"Breaux, Gustave A., attorney, politician. Born Vermilionville (present-day Lafayette), La., December 28, 1828. Son of Aurelian Breaux and Modeste Bernard. Education: Norwich University in Vermont, graduated 1847; Harvard University Law School, graduated 1851. Served as clerk of Louisiana senate for one year. Admitted to Louisiana bar, 1852; became partner of Judge Charles Fenner in the firm of Fenner and Breaux, which later became Breaux, Fenner and Hall. Civil War service: colonel, Thirtieth Louisiana Infantry Regiment, March 1, 1862; dropped, February 1863; enrolling officer at Lake Charles, 1864-1865. After war, involved in sugar plantation in Lafayette Parish. Elected state senator in 1878 and again in 1884. Member, constitutional convention, 1879. Married (1) Emilie Locke (1836-1872), daughter of Samuel Locke and Emilina Guesdon, July 1, 1856. Married (2) Joseph Marr, December 24, 1874. Children: Modeste Emilina (1857-1933); Samuel Locke [1860-1933]; and Gustave Arvilien, Jr. (b. 1869). Member, Louisiana Educational Society, Louisiana Bar Association; president, New Orleans Jockey Club. Died, Oakbourne Plantation, near Lafayette, February 24, 1910."
Biographical sketch by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., in "A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography," Glenn R. Conrad (gen. ed.), 2 vols. (New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Association, 1988), Vol. 1, p. 105.

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