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Louisiana businessman and politician
Dudley Joseph LeBlanc
[1]
(August 16, 1894 ? October 22, 1971)
[2]
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.
[3]
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 1972.
[4]
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.
[5]
LeBlanc can be seen as a contestant on the 1st March 1951 edition of
You Bet Your Life
in which he describes his political career.
He was
posthumously
inducted into the
Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame
in 1993.
[6]
References
[
edit
]
- 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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