Long of Louisiana, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in support of import restrictions on beef.
In his statement before Long's committee, Crothers noted that Louisiana in 1966 had 45,000 herds of cattle and that beef was the number one agricultural product in the state.
He questioned how domestic beef producers, with high costs, wages, and taxes, could be expected to compete with foreign imports of cattle grown with a cheap, inferior feed.
"[3] The Brenham C. Crothers Scholarship is awarded in his honor by the animal science division at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
She was a much older step-sister of her father's successor as tax assessor, Charles Russell Henington, Sr.[citation needed] Henington was among six parish officials killed in a plane crash in Shreveport on May 8, 1986; he was piloting his plane and carrying five of his assistants for a meeting in Baton Rouge.