Dudley J. LeBlanc
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Dudley J. LeBlanc (August 16, 1894 – October 22, 1971)[1] was an American entrepreneur and politician. He created the patent medicine Hadacol and promoted it through the 'Hadacol Caravan' which featured major celebrities of the day including Mickey Rooney, Ava Gardner, Cesar Romero, Hank Williams, and many others. Williams began writing the song 'Jambalaya' while traveling on the Hadacol bus, listening to the Cajun conversation.
Leblanc served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1924 to 1928.[2] In 1932 he ran for governor, losing to the Huey Long candidate Oscar K. Allen. He served in the Louisiana Senate from 1940 to 1944, 1948 to 1952, and 1964 to 1971.[3]
In his Gubernatorial campaign, one of Leblanc's plans was to pay a monthly stipend to the elderly. Huey Long subsequently adopted the idea in his nascent campaign for President. Franklin D. Roosevelt got the idea from Long, and it became the modern Social Security system.[4]
LeBlanc was a contestant on the 1 March 1951 edition of You Bet Your Life in which he described his political career.
He was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in 1993.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Louisiana Secretary of State". Archived from the original on 7 November 2008. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "MEMBERSHIP IN THE LOUISIANA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1812 - 2016" (PDF). www.house.louisiana.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "MEMBERSHIP IN THE LOUISIANA SENATE 1880 - 2020" (PDF). www.senate.la.gov. August 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ Clay, Floyd Martin. Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol. Pelican Publishing Company, 1987.
- ^ "Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame". cityofwinnfield.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
- William J. "Bill" Dodd, Peapatch Politics: The Earl Long Era in Louisiana Politics, Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing, 1991
- Obituaries of Dudley J. LeBlanc, Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, October 23, 1971; Lafayette Daily Advertiser October 22, 1971; New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 23, 1971
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060715210804/http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/leblanc/leblanc-1.htm
- Floyd Clay Martin, Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol
- http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&qwork=1336975&qsort=p&siteID=KLVmR9fE2yU-LcsUdqTmR6Odz.nkB9F.IA
- http://www.acadian.org/leblanc.html Archived 2006-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.lpb.org/education/classroom/itv/serdesc.cfm?SerID=15
- M. M. Le Blanc, The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition, BizEntine Press.
- M. M. Le Blanc, The Acadian Miracle, 50th Anniversary Edition, BizEntine Press.
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- 1894 births
- 1971 deaths
- People from Abbeville, Louisiana
- People from Erath, Louisiana
- People from Youngsville, Louisiana
- Acadian history
- Businesspeople from Louisiana
- Cajun people
- Democratic Party Louisiana state senators
- Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission
- Patent medicine businesspeople
- Politicians from Lafayette, Louisiana
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- 20th-century members of the Louisiana State Legislature