Eugene F. Loud

Who was Eugene F. Loud?

Eugene Francis Loud was a U.S. Representative from California.

Born in Abington, Massachusetts, Loud went to sea and afterward settled in California. During the Civil War, he enlisted in a California Cavalry battalion in 1862, which formed a part of the Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry. He returned to California, where he engaged in mining and as clerk for fifteen years. He studied law, and served as clerk in the customs service in San Francisco. He served as member of the California Assembly in 1884. He was cashier of the city and county of San Francisco.

Loud was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and to the five succeeding Congresses. He served as chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He died in San Francisco, December 19, 1908. He remains were cremated and the ashes interred in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.