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Delpit was elected to the state House in the first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary on November 1, 1975. He served on these committees: Municipal and Parochial Affairs, Agriculture, and Appropriations. In 1983, he won his third term as state representative without opposition. On March 12, 1984, he was elected Speaker Pro Tempore and became the highest-ranking African-American elected official in Louisiana since [[Reconstruction]]. In 1987, Delpit won reelection by 182 votes to secure his fourth term and final term. In a runoff with fellow Democrat Darrell Wayne Glasper (born 1953), Delpit prevailed 3,318 (51 percent) to 3,136 (49 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Delpit was elected to the state House in the first-ever nonpartisan blanket primary on November 1, 1975. He served on these committees: Municipal and Parochial Affairs, Agriculture, and Appropriations. In 1983, he won his third term as state representative without opposition. On March 12, 1984, he was elected Speaker Pro Tempore and became the highest-ranking African-American elected official in Louisiana since [[Reconstruction]]. In 1987, Delpit won reelection by 182 votes to secure his fourth term and final term. In a runoff with fellow Democrat Darrell Wayne Glasper (born 1953), Delpit prevailed 3,318 (51 percent) to 3,136 (49 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref>
Delpit works with his children and grandchildren in the continued family operation of The Chicken Shack. His eldest child, Joe Delpit, Jr., died on November 6, 2019 at the age of sixty-one.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-albert-delpit&pid=194410627&fhid=11073|title=Joseph Albert Delpit, Jr. (1958-2019)|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=November 11, 2019|accessdate=November 12, 2019}}</ref>
Delpit works with his children and grandchildren in the continued family operation of The Chicken Shack. His eldest child, Joe Delpit, Jr., of Baker, Louisiana, died at the age of sixty-one on November 6, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=joseph-albert-delpit&pid=194410627&fhid=11073|title=Joseph Albert Delpit, Jr. (1958-2019)|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=November 11, 2019|accessdate=November 12, 2019}}</ref>
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