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|predecessor=
|successor=
| party= [[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Leslie Groves Bardwell
| children=Brian Bardwell<br>
Patrick Bardwell<br>
Erin BardwellIrby<br>Three grandchildren| parents=Stanford, Sr., and Loyola Munson Bardwell
| birth_date=July 2, 1940
| birth_place=[[Baton Rouge]], Louisiana
==Background==
One of seven children of Loyola and Stanford Bardwell, Sr., he and all his siblings were all named for prestigious universities, [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Duke University|Duke]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Auburn University|Auburn]], [[Cornell University|Cornell]], and [[Tulane University|Tulane]] (his . His late sister was T'lane Bardwell Berry). Bardwell graduated from Baton Rouge High School and attended the business school at the [[University of Michigan]] at Ann Arbor, [[Michigan]], and later graduated in 1965 from the LSU Law Center. A participant in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, he was a veteran of the [[United States Air Force]]. he was commissioned an officer in the Judge Advocate General Corps serving in the [[Azores Islands]] attaining the rank of captain.<ref name>{{cite web|url=bardwelldeathhttp://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=stanford-o-bardwell&pid=189264656|title=Stanford Bardwell obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate''|date=June 11, 2018}}</ref>
Bardwell worked in an adult [[Bible]] study and prison ministry at the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Baton Rouge. He was active too in Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, the Governor's Criminal Justice Commission, Rotary International, and the Greater Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=bardwelldeath/>
