Fun Fact Friday with Special Collections –
Fri, 04/26/2024 - 12:30pm
The John B. Breaux Memorabilia Collection has just recently been reprocessed!
John Berlinger Breaux was born in Crowley in 1944. He graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) with a B.A. in 1964, and from Louisiana State University, Paul M. Herbert Law Center with a LL.B. in 1967.
In 1972, Breaux was elected to the House of Representatives at the age of 28. At the time of his election, he was the youngest member of Congress. He represented the seventh district of Louisiana for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 1986. He retired from the Senate in 2005 and joined the Legal Counsel Firm of Squire Patton Boggs located in Washington D.C.
His collection contains framed photographs, plaques, certificates, and awards. There is also a CD containing an NPR interview Senator Breaux gave regarding his impending retirement from the Senate.
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