Robert Foligny Broussard (August 17, 1864 – April 12, 1918) was both a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from Louisiana.

He was elected prosecuting attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial District and held that office from 1892 to 1897.

[1] While in the House of Representative, he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-third Congress); he did not seek renomination in 1914, having become a candidate for Senator.

In the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on National Banks (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses).

This bill proposed $250,000 in funding from the federal government to import the hippopotamus from Africa in order to solve two problems at once: the meat shortage in the United States and the invasive plant-species called the Water Hyacinth invading Louisiana's waterways.