Background
Broussard was born in New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish in the sugar-producing region of south Louisiana, to Senator Edwin Sidney Broussard, I, and the former Marie C. Patout.
Broussard was born in New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish in the sugar-producing region of south Louisiana, to Senator Edwin Sidney Broussard, I, and the former Marie C. Patout.
He was educated in Washington, District of Columbia, New Iberia High School, and Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in College Station, where he received his Doctorate.V.M.
Degree. He was activated on June 29, 1941, as a first lieutenant, Fourth Corps (Cavalry) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was subsequently stationed in the South Pacific in New Caledonia and later in San Antonio. He was discharged on December 13, 1945, with the rank of major.
He was awarded both the Bronze Star and the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon in the Guadalcanal and Coral Sea campaign.
In 1946, Doctor Broussard resumed his practice of veterinary medicine in New Iberia. The couple had six sons: George P., Junior.
(born 1949), Edwin South., III (born 1951), Thomas South. (born 1953), Daniel South. (born 1954), Kenneth J.S. (born 1961), and Ben Jacques (born 1963). He died in New Iberia and is interred in the Holy Family Cemetery Mausoleum there.
Broussard was a member of the Boy Scouts Evangeline Council, the American and Louisiana veterinary medical associations, the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Board of Examiners, the Iberia Cattleman"s Association, and the Attakapas Historical Association.