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| death_place=Baton Rouge
| death_place=Baton Rouge
| death_cause=
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| death_date=June 4, 2018 (aged 77)
| death_date=June 9, 2018 (aged 77)
| resting_place=Roselawn Cemetery in Baton Rouge
| resting_place=Roselawn Cemetery in Baton Rouge
| alma_mater=Baton Rouge High School<br>
| alma_mater=Baton Rouge High School<br>
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
| religion=[[Presbyterian]]
}}
}}
'''Stanford Ovide Bardwell, Jr.''' (July 2, 1940<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stanford-bardwell/e36076366056|title=Stanford Bardwell|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=June 11, 2018}}</ref> – June 4, 2018), was an [[attorney]] in his native [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who was the U. S. attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana from 1981 to 1986 during the administration of [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]]. In 1983, Bardwell prosecuted the counterfeiting case against former [[Louisiana State University]] athlete William Abb "Billy" Cannon (1937-2018),<ref name=bardwelldeath>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_e431734a-6c3f-11e8-a195-6b281cec5961.html|title=Former U.S. Attorney Stanford Bardwell, Jr., who prosecuted Barry Seal, Billy Cannon cases, dies|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Emma Dischler|date=June 9, 2018|accessdate=June 11, 2018}}</ref> who coincidentally died fifteen days before Bardwell's own passing.
'''Stanford Ovide Bardwell, Jr.''' (July 2, 1940<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/stanford-bardwell/e36076366056|title=Stanford Bardwell|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=June 11, 2018}}</ref> – June 9, 2018), was an [[attorney]] in his native [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], who was the U. S. attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana from 1981 to 1986 during the administration of [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]]. In 1983, Bardwell prosecuted the counterfeiting case against former [[Louisiana State University]] athlete William Abb "Billy" Cannon (1937-2018),<ref name=bardwelldeath>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_e431734a-6c3f-11e8-a195-6b281cec5961.html|title=Former U.S. Attorney Stanford Bardwell, Jr., who prosecuted Barry Seal, Billy Cannon cases, dies|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|author=Emma Dischler|date=June 9, 2018|accessdate=June 11, 2018}}</ref> who coincidentally died fifteen days before Bardwell's own passing.
==Background==
==Background==
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/>
Bardwell died at his Baton Rouge home four weeks before his 78th birthday. A memorial service will be held at First Presbyterian Church on June 14, 2018; interment will follow privately at Roselawn Cemetery.<ref name=obit/>
Bardwell died at his Baton Rouge home some three weeks before his 78th birthday. A memorial service will be held at First Presbyterian Church on June 14, 2018; interment will follow privately at Roselawn Cemetery.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
==References==