Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. (July 12, 1890 – March 15, 1966) was a

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. Born in

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, Louisiana, Larcade attended the public and parochial schools, Opelousas High School, Academy Immaculate Conception, and Opelousas Institute. During the First World War, Larcade served as a private in the Three Hundred and Forty-eighth Infantry, Eighty-seventh Division, at

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, later obtaining a commission as second lieutenant,

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, Officers' Reserve Corps. He engaged in the banking business and the general insurance business. He served as a member of the St. Landry Parish School Board 1913–1928. He served as a member of the State senate 1928–1932. He served as assistant clerk of the State senate 1932–1936. He served in the State house of representatives 1936–1940, having succeeded

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. Larcade was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1953). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1952. He served as a member of the State senate once again from 1956 to 1960, paired with Bill Cleveland of Acadia Parish. He engaged in banking business. He was a resident of

, Louisiana, until his death there March 15, 1966. He was interred in St. Landry Cemetery.

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