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As an engineer, Hébert was cited for his design of a practical, cost-effective system to re-line water and sewer pipes, an innovation used first in his native Monroe. For more than twenty-five years, he was treasurer and vice president of Roland Construction Company, Inc.,<ref name=bio/> which was established in Alexandria in 1960 but is since inactive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/la/ROLAND-CONSTRUCTION-COMPANY-INC.html|title=Roland Construction Company, Inc.|publisher=bizapedia.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref>

As an engineer, Hébert was cited for his design of a practical, cost-effective system to re-line water and sewer pipes, an innovation used first in his native Monroe. For more than twenty-five years, he was treasurer and vice president of Roland Construction Company, Inc.,<ref name=bio/> which was established in Alexandria in 1960 but is since inactive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/la/ROLAND-CONSTRUCTION-COMPANY-INC.html|title=Roland Construction Company, Inc.|publisher=bizapedia.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref>

In the spring of 1973, Hébert unseated [[O'Hearn Mathews]] to win the streets and parks commissioner position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/supreme-court/1972/261-la-850-0.html|title=''Bonnette v. Karst''|publisher=law.justia.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref> Mathews was an experienced politician, having previously been the Alexandria city [[marshal]] and in 1962 the first president of the newly formed Louisiana City Marshals and City Constables Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lamarshals.org/imgs/By%20Laws.pdf|title=Louisiana City Marshals and City Constables Association, Organized April 8, 1962|publisher=lamarshals.org|accessdate=June 7, 2014; no longer on line.}}</ref>

In the spring of 1973, Hébert unseated [[O'Hearn Mathews]] to win the streets and parks commissioner position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/supreme-court/1972/261-la-850-0.html|title=''Bonnette v. Karst''|publisher=law.justia.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref> Mathews was an experienced politician, having previously been the Alexandria city [[marshal]] and in 1962 the first president of the newly formed Louisiana City Marshals and City Constables Association.<ref>Louisiana City Marshals and City Constables Association, Organized April 8, 1962, Lamarshals.org, accessed June 7, 2014; no longer on line.</ref>

On the council, Hébert served alongside [[Mayor]] [[John K. Snyder]], who was also the commissioner of public safety and sanitation, and Arnold Jack Rosenthal, the last of the Alexandria commissioners of finance and utilities. All were [[Democratic Party|Democrats]]. At times, he and Snyder made two-to-one decisions overruling Rosenthal, even regarding appointments in Rosenthal's own department of his executive assistant, the late Floyd W. Smith Jr., the former mayor of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], Louisiana. Snyder and Hebert in 1974 joined to dismiss Smith despite Rosenthal's heated opposition.<ref>Bret H. McCormick, Floyd W. Smith, Jr., former mayor of Pineville, dies at 77, ''The Alexandria  Town Talk'', February 12, 2010.</ref>

On the council, Hébert served alongside [[Mayor]] [[John K. Snyder]], who was also the commissioner of public safety and sanitation, and Arnold Jack Rosenthal, the last of the Alexandria commissioners of finance and utilities. All were [[Democratic Party|Democrats]]. At times, he and Snyder made two-to-one decisions overruling Rosenthal, even regarding appointments in Rosenthal's own department of his executive assistant, the late Floyd W. Smith Jr., the former mayor of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], Louisiana. Snyder and Hebert in 1974 joined to dismiss Smith despite Rosenthal's heated opposition.<ref>Bret H. McCormick, Floyd W. Smith, Jr., former mayor of Pineville, dies at 77, ''The Alexandria  Town Talk'', February 12, 2010.</ref>