Louis Thebaud

Background

Louis A. Thebaud was born on October 24, 1859 in Orange, New Jersey.

Career

In his retirement, he sponsored sailing races and supported the First World War effort as well as a hospital in New Jersey. Additionally, he introduced Britanny spaniels, a breed of hunting dogs, to the United States, and he was the founding president of the American Brittany Club. He was of French descent.

Thebaud worked for C. H. Raymond & Company from 1893 to 1906.

The firm, headed by Charles H. Raymond, was a contractor for the Mutual Life Insurance Company, whose president was his father-in-law. In 1906, Thebaud was sued by the company alongside his father-in-law, brother-in-law, and Raymond, over a corporate scandal.

As early as 1905, the press revealed he was paid between $920,113 and $932,831 in commissions by Mutual life. The scandal was described by The Washington Post as a prime example of nepotism.

Thebaud served on the Board of Directors of the Morristown Trust Company.

They also supported an all girls" school in Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany, France. They also donated an ambulance in 1930. Thebaud first imported griffons, a breed of hunting dogs, to the United States.

Later, he introduced the Britanny spaniel, another breed of hunting dogs, to the United States.

Thebaud used Britanny spaniels on his quail hunts in Florida. Meanwhile, two of his dogs, Franche de Cosqueron and Genette du Mesnil, were recorded in the Field Dog Study Book.

Additionally, his dogs competed in field trials and dog shows. Thebaud and Louis de la Fleche co-founded the Brittany Spaniel Club of North America (later known as the American Brittany Club) in 1936.

Thebaud served as its first president

Thebaud died on April 2, 1939 in hospital in Morristown, New Jersey.

Achievements

• lieutenant won the Lipton Trophy in 1930. Thebaud was a co-founder of the Whippany River Club, a millionaire"s club in Morristown, alongside Robert McCurdy, R.H. Williams, Rudolph Kissel, Gordon McDonald, Benjamin Nicoll, Robert D. Foote, Norman Henderson, Arthur R. Whitney, Frederick O. Spedden, W. DeLancy Kountze, Francis H. Kinnicutt.

Membership

After working for C. H. Raymond & Company, a contractor of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, for a dozen years, he was caught in a corporate scandal and sued alongside other members of his family. The Thébaud family, who were members of the French nobility, had emigrated to the United States in the wake of the French Revolution, where they ran an import-export business.