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2016 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 34
BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHEXNAYDER
COMMENDATIONS: Commends Cazenave Motor Company in Vacherie for one hundred
years of continuous operation
1 A RESOLUTION
2To commend the Cazenave Motor Company in Vacherie upon its one hundredth year of
3 continuous operation.
4 WHEREAS, the Cazenave Motor Company was conceived in 1915, when Woodrow
5Wilson was president of the United States, Babe Ruth hit his first career home run, and the
6British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine; and
7 WHEREAS, Etienne Victor Cazenave, Sr., answered a Ford Motor Company
8newspaper ad seeking distributors for its Ford vehicles, and at the age of twenty-seven,
9Mr. Cazenave started Cazenave Motor Company in a wooden one-car garage in Wallace
10with three Model T Fords on consignment; and
11 WHEREAS, in 1925, Mr. Cazenave moved his business to an iconic, long-leaf pine
12and red brick building he had built on River Road in Vacherie, and that building still stands;
13and
14 WHEREAS, Cazenave Motor Company is a family affair: Roland "Bud" Cazenave,
15son of Etienne, earned a degree from LSU in business agriculture, was in the Army ROTC,
16served with the 1st Armored Division at Anzio Beach Head in Africa and in Italy, and
17worked for a bank before joining his father's business; and
18 WHEREAS, after attending Loyola University, Etienne Victor "E.V." Jr., joined the
19company; in the early 1970s, a third generation of Cazenaves, Bud's son Jimmy and E.V.
20Jr.'s sons Steven and Paul, began working in the family business, and several years ago,
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1Jimmy's son, Jody, and Steven's son, Brett, became the fourth generation of Cazenaves to
2make their mark at Cazenave Motor Company; and
3 WHEREAS, three of four Cazenave sisters have worked in parts and bookkeeping
4and another Cazenave grandson, Mackie Waguespack, greeted customers; and
5 WHEREAS, the longevity of the company is attributed to service and honesty by
6long-time co-owner E.V. Jr., who at the age of eighty-seven still works each day; the
7dealership has won the Ford Chairman's Award, the highest dealer award in the nation
8several times, and proudly displays a letter from William Clay Ford, Jr., Ford Company's
9executive chairman, heralding Cazenave Motor Company for one hundred years of
10continuous family ownership and superior customer care.
11 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
12Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend the Cazenave family for its contributions to
13the community of Vacherie across one hundred years of operation of Cazenave Motor
14Company and does hereby express best wishes for continued prosperity in the years to come.
15 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
16to E.V. Cazenave, Jr.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 34 Original 2016 Regular Session Schexnayder
Commends Cazenave Motor Company in Vacherie for 100 years of continuous operation.
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