Edward Prudhomme

Edward Carrington Prudhomme was born July 12, 1869, in Bermuda, Louisiana, at the Old Manor house on his father's plantation.

Prudhomme was one of eight siblings to Jacques Prudhomme and Elisa LeComte.

He was a descent of Emmanuel Prudhomme, who had fought for the French in the Revolutionary War and secured a tract of land for the family's plantation in Louisiana for his service.[1]

Edward married his cousin Laura Prudhomme on October 12, 1894. They had three children, Reginald, Myrtle, and Emma Lise.

Mildred Methvin, a federal and state judge in Louisiana, is a descendant of the Prudhomme family.

Ed Prudhomme arrived at Notre Dame to pursue a commercial diploma in 1883. He was a member of the second Notre Dame football team in the spring of 1888. He played as a fullback, and is credited with kicking the team's first extra point in a 26–6 loss to Michigan (conversions via a kick were worth two points from 1883 to 1897). In the 1888 fall season Edward was elected to the honor of team captain, and presided over the first win in program history, a 20–0 shutout of Harvard Prep school of Chicago. Prudhomme was elected again in 1889, and became the first captain to serve for two consecutive years (Henry Luhn was technically the first to serve two seasons, doing so in the fall of 1887 and spring of 1888). He led the Fighting Irish to their first collegiate victory, a 9–0 shutout at Northwestern. He left the University with a 2–2 record, and a 2–0 record as a captain.[2]

Edward, along with nine of his other teammates, returned to the University in 1924 for the homecoming game against Georgia Tech.

After graduating from the University in 1891, Edward returned to work on his father's plantation in Louisiana. He became an assistant postmaster for the town of Bermuda, and served on the board of directors in the state farm bureau. He advocated for the idea of scientific farming and demonstrative work.

As of 1925, Ed had served politically as a member of the Natchitoches Parish Democratic Executive Committee for the past thirty years. He succeeded his father Jacques as the parish's jury commissioner in 1904. In 1924, Edward was elected to the Louisiana state legislature, and served on the committees on education, and railroads. He was also vice-chairman of the committee on claims, and a member of the committee on constitution and executive messages.[3]