Braud, Sidney F.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Sidney F. Braud, M. D. A native of Louisiana, Doctor Braud graduated in medicine and began practice a year or so before America entered the World war. He was in the Army Medical Corps (luring that period, and since the war his practice has been largely limited to the government service. He is now chief medical officer of the United States Veterans Bureau for a region embracing Louisiana and a part of Mississippi.

He was born in La Fourche Parish, Louisiana, in 1890, son of P. L. and Louisiana (Legendre) Braud. Both his father and mother represented some of the old French ancestry of this state.Sidney F. Braud was liberally educated, attending Spring Hill College at Mobile, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910, and acquired his medical education in Tulane University at New Orleans, where he was graduated M. D., in 1914. During 1915 he spent considerable time doing post-graduate work in diseases of children at the Harvard Medical School.

After graduating Doctor Braud practiced in New Orleans until October, 1917, when he volunteered for service in the World war. At Camp Greenleaf, at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, was soon transferred to Fort Sam Houston in Texas and remained there until his discharge in January, 1919, having Previously been advanced to the rank of captain Re still holds a commission as major in the Medical Officer's Reserve Corps.

After his return to New Orleans Doctor Brand resumed private practice, hut in October, 1919, became associated as medical officer with the federal board of vocational education. In June, 1920, he was transferred to the bureau of War Risk Insurance. On November 15, 1924, he was assigned his present duties as chief medical officer for the United States Veterans Bureau for the region embracing the State of Louisiana and two counties in Mississippi. This is an executive position, the duties of Doctor Braud giving him charge of all the medical work and examinations for this region of the bureau, including three United States Veterans Hospitals, No. 84 at Algiers, No. 27 at Alexandria and No. 34 at Gulf-port, Mississippi. These hospitals contain over eleven hundred patients, all disabled men from the American war forces.

Doctor Braud is a member of the Orleans, Louisiana State, Southern and American Medical Associations. He married Miss Agnes Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy of New Orleans. They have one Son, Sidney F. Brawl, Jr.A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 25, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.