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==Career==
==Career==
As U.S. attorney, Bardwell also prosecuted Adler Berriman "Barry Seal (1939-1986), an airline pilot, drug trafficker, and informant who was gunned down in a contract murder at a halfway house. Seal's murder was ordered by Pablo Escobar of the Medellin ([[Colombia]]) drug cartel. After five years as U.S. attorney, Bardwell moved to [[Washington, D.C.]], to become the deputy general counsel for the United States Energy Department under then secretary John S. Herrington. He held this post from 1986 to 1988, when he returned to the private practice of law in Baton Rouge.<ref name=bardwelldeath/>
As U.S. attorney, Bardwell also prosecuted Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal (1939-1986), an airline pilot, drug trafficker, and informant who was gunned down in a contract murder at a halfway house. Seal's murder was ordered by Pablo Escobar of the Medellin ([[Colombia]]) drug cartel. After five years as U.S. attorney, Bardwell moved to [[Washington, D.C.]], to become the deputy general counsel for the United States Energy Department under then secretary John S. Herrington. He held this post from 1986 to 1988, when he returned to the private practice of law in Baton Rouge.<ref name=bardwelldeath/>
Bardwell was an early [[Republican Party|Republican]] activist in the capital city. He worked strenuously in 1974 and 1975 to elect Republican William Henson Moore, III, to fill Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat, a post which Moore held for twelve years until 1987. Moore left the House to run, unsuccessfully as it developed, for the [[United States Senate]] against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[John Breaux]] to fill the seat of the retiring Democrat [[Russell Long]]. Moore will be an honorary pallbearer at Bardwell's funeral.<ref name=obit/>
Bardwell was an early [[Republican Party|Republican]] activist in the capital city. He worked strenuously in 1974 and 1975 to elect Republican William Henson Moore, III, to fill Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat, a post which Moore held for twelve years until 1987. Moore left the House to run, unsuccessfully as it developed, for the [[United States Senate]] against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[John Breaux]] to fill the seat of the retiring Democrat [[Russell Long]]. Moore will be an honorary pallbearer at Bardwell's funeral.<ref name=obit/>