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LeBlanc humorously recounted his French-language campaigning while a contestant on [[Groucho Marx]]'s [[NBC]] [[television]] quiz show, ''You Bet Your Life'' on January 18, 1951. When Groucho asked LeBlanc what Hadacol was good for, he quipped, "It was good for about five million dollars for me last year."
LeBlanc humorously recounted his French-language campaigning while a contestant on [[Groucho Marx]]'s [[NBC]] [[television]] quiz show, ''You Bet Your Life'' on January 18, 1951. When Groucho asked LeBlanc what Hadacol was good for, he quipped, "It was good for about five million dollars for me last year."
==Running for governor again, 1944 and 1952==
==Running for governor again, 1944 and 1952==
In 1944, LeBlanc surrendered his Senate seat to make his second run for governor. He polled only 40,392 votes (8.4 percent). Ernest Clements was running for governor too — he polled about half as many votes as LeBlanc received. The winner that year was LeBlanc's fellow Democrat, [[Jimmie Davis]], who won the first of his two nonconsecutive terms, having defeated principal rival Lewis Lovering Morgan (1876-1950) of Covington in St. Tammany Parish. Still another 1944 candidate was [[Sam Caldwell]], the mayor of [[Shreveport]] in northwestern Louisiana who finished with fewer than thirty thousand votes.
In 1944, LeBlanc surrendered his Senate seat to make his second run for governor. He polled only 40,392 votes (8.4 percent). Ernest Clements was running for governor too — he polled about half as many votes as LeBlanc received. The winner that year was LeBlanc's fellow Democrat, [[Jimmie Davis]], who won the first of his two nonconsecutive terms, having defeated principal rival Lewis Lovering Morgan (1876-1950) of Covington in St. Tammany Parish. Still another 1944 candidate was [[Sam Caldwell]], the mayor of [[Shreveport]] in northwestern Louisiana who finished with fewer than thirty thousand votes.
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==Inventor of Hadacol patent medicine==
==Hadacol patent medicine==
LeBlanc invented a patent medicine he named "HADACOL" because he "had to call" it something, which became a best-selling patent medicine throughout the United States. Le Blanc devised never-before-seen marketing techniques to sell the medicine techniques never before seen in America. <ref name=fcmartin>{{cite book|url=https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&qsort=p&qwork=1336975&siteID=KLVmR9fE2yU-LcsUdqTmR6Odz.nkB9F.IA|tiitle=Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol|publisher=Addison Wesley Company|author=Floyd Clay Martin|date=1974|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> In 1996 a documentary film entitled "Cajun Renaissance Man" about LeBlanc's life and his passion for his Acadian roots, his love of politics and his patent medicine was produced by his filmmaker granddaughter, M. M. Le Blanc, for [[PBS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadian.org/dudleyleblanc.html|title=Acadian Genealogy Homepage: ''An Acadian of Belle Isle en Mer Remembers Cousin Dudley LeBlanc|publisher=www.acadian.org|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>M. M. LeBlanc, 'The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition''; ''The Acadian Miracle, 50th Anniversary Edition,'' both books by BizEntine Press in [[Florida]].</ref>
LeBlanc invented a patent medicine he named "HADACOL" because he "had to call" it something, which became a best-selling patent medicine throughout the United States. Le Blanc devised never-before-seen marketing techniques to sell the medicine techniques never before seen in America. <ref name=fcmartin>{{cite book|url=https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&qsort=p&qwork=1336975&siteID=KLVmR9fE2yU-LcsUdqTmR6Odz.nkB9F.IA|tiitle=Coozan Dudley LeBlanc: From Huey Long to Hadacol|publisher=Addison Wesley Company|author=Floyd Clay Martin|date=1974|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref> In 1996 a documentary film entitled "Cajun Renaissance Man" about LeBlanc's life and his passion for his Acadian roots, his love of politics and his patent medicine was produced by his filmmaker granddaughter, M. M. Le Blanc, for [[PBS]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadian.org/dudleyleblanc.html|title=Acadian Genealogy Homepage: ''An Acadian of Belle Isle en Mer Remembers Cousin Dudley LeBlanc|publisher=www.acadian.org|accessdate=January 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>M. M. LeBlanc, 'The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition''; ''The Acadian Miracle, 50th Anniversary Edition,'' both books by BizEntine Press in [[Florida]].</ref>
==LeBlanc's obituary==
==Obituary==
LeBlanc died of a massive [[stroke]] while a patient at Abbeville General Hospital, where he had been admitted for emergency surgery for a gastric [[ulcer]] three days earlier.<ref name=obits/>
LeBlanc died of a massive [[stroke]] while a patient at Abbeville General Hospital, where he had been admitted for emergency surgery for a gastric [[ulcer]] three days earlier.<ref name=obits/>
Services were held on October 23, 1971, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville. LeBlanc was a member of the Catholic Church and had donated the land on which St. Theresa Catholic Church of Abbeville stands. He was interred in the St. Mary Magdalen Parish Cemetery. Survivors included his widow, the former Evelyn Hebert (1897–1992), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Hebert and a teacher whom he wed in 1919; four sons, Dudley J. LeBlanc, Jr. (1922-2005), of Lafayette, Roland Francis LeBlanc, Sr. (born 1925), and Morgan E. LeBlanc (born 1938), both of Abbeville, and Jean B. LeBlanc (also born 1938) of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. Kay Jarrell (born 1927) of Lafayette and Mrs. Bertha Anne (James) Curley (born 1934) of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]; two brothers, Oliver J. LeBlanc, the Lafayette Parish clerk of court, and Paul V. LeBlanc of New Orleans, and twenty-four grandchildren. Two other brothers preceded him in death: Preston LeBlanc and Raoul (Ralph) J. LeBlanc (1898–1970).<ref name=obits>Obituaries of Dudley J. LeBlanc, ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' October 23, 1971; ''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' October 22, 1971; ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' October 23, 1971.</ref>
Services were held on October 23, 1971, at St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church in Abbeville. LeBlanc was a member of the Catholic Church and had donated the land on which St. Theresa Catholic Church of Abbeville stands. He was interred in the St. Mary Magdalen Parish Cemetery. Survivors included his widow, the former Evelyn Hebert (1897–1992), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Hebert and a teacher whom he wed in 1919; four sons, Dudley J. LeBlanc, Jr. (1922-2005), of Lafayette, Roland Francis LeBlanc, Sr. (born 1925), and Morgan E. LeBlanc (born 1938), both of Abbeville, and Jean B. LeBlanc (also born 1938) of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Mrs. Kay Jarrell (born 1927) of Lafayette and Mrs. Bertha Anne (James) Curley (born 1934) of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]]; two brothers, Oliver J. LeBlanc, the Lafayette Parish clerk of court, and Paul V. LeBlanc of New Orleans, and twenty-four grandchildren. Two other brothers preceded him in death: Preston LeBlanc and Raoul (Ralph) J. LeBlanc (1898–1970).<ref name=obits>Obituaries of Dudley J. LeBlanc, ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' October 23, 1971; ''The Lafayette Daily Advertiser,'' October 22, 1971; ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' October 23, 1971.</ref>
==Louisiana Hall of Fame==
==Louisiana Hall of Fame==
The [[novel]]ist and biographer Steven Longstreet compared LeBlanc with Huey Long, while LeBlanc was still living: "He's as good a speaker and as quick a thinker as Long was. But I don't think he has Long's streak of cruelty, and he has the quality that Long never had -- the ability to laugh at himself."
The [[novel]]ist and biographer Steven Longstreet compared LeBlanc with Huey Long, while LeBlanc was still living: "He's as good a speaker and as quick a thinker as Long was. But I don't think he has Long's streak of cruelty, and he has the quality that Long never had -- the ability to laugh at himself."