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Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a Democratic
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from from 1913 to 1927.


Biography

Born near Ville Platte,
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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
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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,
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. He graduated from Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College in 1894 and practiced his profession in
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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
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from 1908 to 1912.


U.S. House of Representatives

Lazaro was elected as a
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to the Sixty-third and to the seven succeeding Congresses; he served from March 4, 1913, until his death in
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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.


Death and burial

He died while in office in 1927 and was interred in the Old City Cemetery,
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.


See also

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