Lefebvre, Victor M., Jr.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Victor M. Lefebvre, Jr., who holds at Port Allen, judicial center of West Baton Rouge Parish, the office of clerk of the court of this important parish, was born on the Mayflower Plantation in Iberville Parish, this state, October 30, 1886, and is a scion of one of the old and honored French families of Louisiana, as will be seen by reference to the personal sketch of his father, Hon. Victor M. Lefebvre, Sr., following, the data there given being such as to obviate the necessity of further review of the family history in this immediate connection.

The preliminary educational discipline of Victor M. Lefebvre, Jr., was acquired in a parochial school at Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, and was advanced by his attending the St. Stanislaus Preparatory School at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Thereafter he was for two years a student in Tulane University, New Orleans, where he became affiliated with the Sigma Nu fraternity. He left the university in 1908, and accepted a position with the Hercules Company, Ltd., of New Orleans, by which he was assigned to service headquarters in the vicinity of Chamberlin, West Baton Rouge Parish. He continued his alliance with the corporation eighteen months, and during the ensuing two years he served as assistant secretary of the Atchafalaya Basin Levee Board, of which his father is the president, with headquarters at Port Allen. He was then, in 1916, elected clerk of the court of West Baton Rouge Parish, and by re-election in 1920 and 1924 he has continued the efficient and popular incumbent of this office to the present time. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the democratic party, and in their home city of Port Allen he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic Church of Sts. Peter and Paul. He is now affiliated with Uncas Tribe No. 64, Improved Order of Red Men, and in this fraternity he has been specially active and influential, he being a past sachem of the tribe organization at Brusly, West Baton Rouge Parish. In the World war period Mr. Lefebvre served as secretary of the draft board of West Baton Rouge Parish, and to this and other patriotic service he gave loyally of his time and attention.

On the 20th of October, 1923, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lefebvre and Miss Elsie Miller, whose father, the late William J. Miller, was one of the representative planters of Tangipahoa Parish at the time of his death, his widow, Mrs. Sophia (Berger) Miller, being now a resident of the City of Baton Rouge. Mr. and Mrs. Lefebvre are leaders in the representative social activities of their home community, and their circle of friends is limited only by that of their acquaintances.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 112, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.