Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a
Democrat
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U.S. Representative
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from from 1913 to 1927.
Biography
Born near
Ville Platte
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,
Evangeline
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(then part of
St. Landry) Parish, Louisiana, Lazaro was the son of Marie Denise Ortego, a daughter of one of Ville Platte’s founding Hispanic families, and Alexandre Lazaro Biladinoviz, a
Roma
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immigrant from the town of
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(in what is now
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), who came to America aboard a ship from Russia as a stowaway.
Lazaro attended public and private schools and Holy Cross College,
.
He was graduated from Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College in 1894 and practiced his profession in
Washington, Louisiana
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, until 1913.
He became interested in agricultural pursuits. He served as president of the parish school board for four years. He also served in the
Louisiana State Senate
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from 1908 to 1912.
U.S. House of Representatives
Lazaro was elected as a
Democrat
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to the
Sixty-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses; he served from March 4, 1913, until his death in
Washington, D.C.
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on March 30, 1927. He became the second Hispanic American ever to chair a standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives when he was named chairman of the
Enrolled Bills Committee in 1915.
He died while in office in 1927 and was interred in the Old City Cemetery,
Ville Platte, Louisiana
Ville Platte is the largest city in, and the parish seat of, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 7,430 at the 2010 census, down from 8,145 in 2000. The city's name is of French origin, roughly translating to "flat town ...
.
See also
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References
External links
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1872 births
1927 deaths
People from Ville Platte, Louisiana
Democratic Party Louisiana state senators
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
American politicians of Spanish descent
Hispanic and Latino American members of the United States Congress
People from Washington, Louisiana
American people of Montenegrin descent
American people of Romani descent